Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon Warren Hastings First Governor General of
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon Warren Hastings First Governor General of
Gleig, G. R. (George Robert), 1796-1888
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Dundas's speeches as fairly given, for they by no means spoke of our friend with such cool and sparing appro- bation as the paper describes. On the contrary (I was one day in the House myself), they both expressed the warmest applause of his conduct, and boldly declared their opinion, that, instead of censure, he merited praise and honourable rewards from his country as the man, who, beyond all doubt, had by his exertions alone, preserved to her her possessions in the East. Even Mr. Burke seems... to have receded from his usual vio- lence, seeing, no doubt, the airy dagger of his gloomy MEMOIRS OF WARREN HASTINGS. 279 imagination fly from his grasp at the instant when he means to clutch it. Instead of criminal, he now seems to dwell most on charges of political error, and it is the general opinion that numerous as the motions are for papers, no criminal charge will be found in the House on their examining the papers called for, but rather that the perusal will open the mind of every member, who is not determinately set against convic- tion ; and I believe persons of that description are now very few.
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