PUBLIC LIBRA 133812B ASTOR, LEVOX INI 1911 DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: (L. S.) BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of August, in the thirty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1807, Nathaniel Chape man, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit: “ SELECT SPEECHES, Forensick and Parliamentary, with prefatory remarks, By N. Chapman, M. D. honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. &c. -Pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus astant; Ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet.........VIRG." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the au. thors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled “ An act supplementary to the act, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. Replacing this cards . CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME, Page. MR. BURKE'S Speech on the motion for papers re- lative to the directions for charging the Nabob of mons. Speech of the honourable Thomas Erskine, on the trial of John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Com- Tried before the right honourable Lloyd, lord Kenyon, chief justice of England, December 149 195 Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure, deli- vered in the House of Commons, February 17, 1792. 27 5 Mr. Pitt's Speech in defence of certain grants of mo- ney to the allies without the authority of parliament. Delivered in the House of Commons, December 14, 1796. 381 MR. BURKE'S SPEECH ON THE MOTION MADE FOR PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE DIRECTIONS FOR CHARGING THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S PRIVATE DEBTS TO EUROPEANS, ON THE REVENUES OF THE CARNATICK. FEB. 28, 1785. Ευλαθε τι πράττειν έχρήν άνδρα των Πλάτωνα και Αριστοτέλους ζηλωτών δογμάτων και άρα περιοράν ανθρώπες αθλίες τους κλέπταις εκδιδομένες, και καλα δύναμιν αυτοίς αμύνειν, όιμαι, ώς ήδη το κύκνειον εξάδουσι δια το θεομισές εργαστήριον των τοιέτων και Εοί μεν εν αισχρον είναι δοκεί τες μέν χιλιάρχες, όταν λείπωσι την τάξιν, καταδικαζειν" την δε υπέρ άθλίων ανθρώπων υπολείπείν τάξιν, όταν δέη προς κλεπίας αγωνίζεσθαι τοιέτες και ταύτα τ8 Θεα συμμαχεντος ημίν, ώσπερ εν έτυξεν. JULIANA, Epist. 17. ADVERTISEMENT. THAT the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enter fully into the spirit of the transaction on occasion of which it was delivered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that among the princes dependent on this nation in the southern part of India, the most considerable at present is commonly known by the title of the Nabob of Arcot. This prince owed the establishment of his govern. ment, against the claims of his elder brother, as well as those of other competitors, to the arms and inAuence of the British East India company. Being thus established in a considerable part of the domi. nions he now possesses, he began, about the year 1765, to form, at the instigation (as he asserts) of the servants of the East India company, a variety of designs for the further extension of his territories. Some years after, he carried his views to certain objects of interiour arrangement, of a very pernicious nature. None of these designs could be encompassed without the aid of the company's arms; nor could those arms be employed consistently with an obedience to the company's orders. He was therefore advised to form a more secret, but an equally powerful interest among the servants of that company, and among others both at home and abroad. By engaging them in his interests, the use of the company's power might be obtained without their ostensible authority; the power might even be employed in defiance of the authority ; if the case should require, as in truth it often i did require, a proceeding of that degree of boldness. The company had put him into possession of several great cities and magnificent castles. The good order of his affairs, his sense of personal dignity, his ideas of oriental splendour, and the habits of an Asiatick life (to which, being a native of India, and a Mahometan, he had from his infancy been inured) would naturally have led him to fix the seat of his government within his own dominions. Instead of this, he totally sequestered himself from his country; and abandoning all appearance of state, he took up his residence in an ordinary house, which he purchased in the suburbs of the company's factory at Madras. In that place he has lived, without removing one day from thence, for several years past. He has there continued a constant cabal with the company's servants, from the highest to the lowest; creating, out of the ruins of the country, brilliant fortunes for those who will, and entirely destroying those who will not, be subservient to his purposes. An opinion prevailed, strongly confirmed by several passages in his own letters, as well as by a combination of circumstances forming a body of evidence which cannot be resisted, that very great sums have been by him distributed, through a long course of years, to some of the company's servants. Besides these presumed payments in ready money (of which, from the nature of the thing, the direct proof is very difficult) debts have at several periods been acknowledged to those gentlemen, to an immense amount; that |
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