Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones of Aberdaron; In the County of Carnarvon, in North Wales Exhibiting a Remarkable Instance of a Partial Power and Cultivation of Intellect (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... SPEECH DELIVERED IN WESTMINSTER HALL BY THE LATE Richard Brinsley sHERiDAN, Esq. ON THE Summoning up of the Evidence of the Begum Charge Against Warren Hastings, Esq. Tuesday, June 3d, 1788, The Court being seated, precisely at twelve o'clock, Mr. Sheridan rose.--It would be superfluous (he observed) for him to call the attention of their Lordships to the magnitude and importance of the subject before them; to advert to the parties who were engaged in the business; or to depict the situation of those multitudes who were ultimately to be affected. All this had already been done by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Burke) who opened the prosecution: --A man, whose genius exceeded every thing but his disposition--who understood and felt for all--who alone against man's oppression was able to assert the Rights of Man, and defend the general rights of humanity. Neither was it his intention to enter into any detail which might be deemed foreign to the question immediately before the Court: --he would only indulge himself in a few words respecting some insinuations which had been thrown out against the persons concerned in this prosecution. It had been whispered, by whom he could not say, that there was something malicious, and something, perhaps, too violent in the manner in which it had been conducted. Speaking for himself, and as far as the heart of man could be known, for the other managers appointed by the Commons, he would boldly assert, that they had acted solely from conviction; not a conviction born in error, and nursed by prejudice; but a conviction founded on deliberate and well-grounded enquiry;--that they had proceeded, not as rejoicing in punishment, but impelled by a sanguine hope of remedy.--Personal malice God forbid that they should indulge such a sensatio...