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THE
WORKS
OF
THE
RIGHT
HONORABLE
EDMUND
BURKE.
FIFTH
EDITION.
VOL.
III.
BOSTON:
LITTLE,
CROWN,
AND
COMPANY.
1877.
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CONTENTS
OF
VOL.
TIL
Pagi
Speech
on
the
Nabob
of
Arcot's
Debts,
February
1785
;
with
an
Appendix
......
.
28,
1
Substance
of
Speech
on
the
Army
Estimates,
Febru-
ary
9,
1790
211
Reflections on
the
Revolution
in
France
.
231
SPEECH
ON
THE
MOTION
MADE
FOR
PAPERS
RELATIVE
TO
THE
DIRECTIONS
FOR
CHARGING
THE NABOB
OF
ARCOTS
PRIVATE
DEBTS
TO
EUROPEANS
ON
THE
REVENUES
OF
THE
CARNATIC,
FEBRUARY
28,
1785.
WITH
AN
APPENDIX,
CONTAINING
SEVERAL
DOCUMENTS.
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Epist.
17.
VOL.
III.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THAT
may
the
least
informed
reader
of
this
speech
may
be
enabled
to
enter
fully
into
the
spirit
of
the
it
transaction
on
occasion
of
which
was
delivered,
it
be
proper
to
acquaint
him,
that,
among
the
prin-
ces
dependent
on
this
nation
in
the
southern
part
of
India,
the
most
considerable
at
present
the
title
is
commonly
known
by
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
influ-
ence
of
the
British
East
India
Company.
Being
thus
established
in
a
considerable
part of the
dominions
he
now
possesses,
he
began,
about
the
year
1765,
to
form,
he
asserts)
of
the
servants
of
the
East
India
Company,
a
variety
of
designs
for
the
at
the
instigation
(as
further
extension
of
his
territories.
years
af-
ter,
he
carried
his
views
to
certain
objects
of
interior
arrangoment,
of
a
very
pernicious
nature.
None
of
these
designs
could
be
compassed
without
the
aid
of
the
Company's
arms
;
Some
nor
could
those
arms
be
em-
ployed
consistently
with
an
obedience
to
the
Com-
He
was
therefore
advised
to
form
pany's
orders.
a
more
secret,
but
among
others
equally
powerful,
interest
the
servants
of
that
Company,
and
among
at
an
both
in
his
home
and
the
abroad.
By
engaging
Company's
them
interests,
use
of
the
power
might
be
obtained
without
their
ostensible
4
;
ADVERTISEMENT.
authority
the
power
might
even
be
employed
in
defiance of
the
authority,
if
the
case
should
require,
as in
truth
it
often
did
require,
a
proceeding
of
that
degree
of
boldness.
The
Company
had
put
him
into
several
great
cities
and
magnificent
good
order
of
of
an
Asiatic
nity,
his
ideas
of
Oriental
splendor,
life,
possession
castles.
of
The
his
affairs,
his
sense
of
personal
dig-
and
the
habits
and
(to
which,
being
a
native
of
India,
a
Mahometan,
he
had
from
his
infancy
been
inured,)
would
naturally
have
led
seat
of
his
government
within
his
him
to
fix
the
own
dominions.
from
Instead
of
this,
he
totally
sequestered
himself
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
In
that
place
he
has
lived,
without
re-
at
Madras.
moving
one
day
from
thence,
for
several
years
past.
He
has
there
continued
a
constant
cabal
with
the
servants,
Company's
—
those
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest,
creating,
out
of
the
ruins
of
the
country,
brilliant
fortunes
for
those
who
will,
and
entirely
destroying
who
will
not,
be
subservient
to
his
purposes.
opinion
prevailed,
strongly
confirmed
by
sev-
eral
passages
in
his
own
letters,
as
well
as
by
a
com-
bination
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
An
Besides
years,
to
some
of
the
Company's
servants.
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
acknowl-
edged
to
those
gentlemen,
to
an
immense
amount,
—
is
that
is,
to
some
millions
of
sterling
money.
There

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