'Speech. ..in the House of 
 Commons... on the Complaint of 
 General Burgoyne 
 
 By 
 John Scott
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
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 THE 
 
 SPEECH 
 
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 MAJOR SCOTT 
 
 I N T H X 
 
 HOUSE OF COMMONS, 
 O N F R I D A Y, M A Y, 21, 1790, 
 
 ON THE COMPLAINT OF 
 
 GENERAL BURGOYNE 
 
 F A 
 
 'BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. 
 
 Dat veniam Corvis, vexat cenfara Cplumbaj. Juv. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 printed for J. STOCK DAT. E, oppofite Burlington Nonfe, 
 Piccadilly* 
 
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 HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
 
 FRIDAY, MAY 21, ijgo. 
 
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 0>7Z having opened the grounds 
 of a Complaint againft John Scott, Efq; 
 Member for Weft Looe^ read the follow- 
 ing Refolutionsi declaring he meant to 
 move them fsveirally as foon as the 
 Honourable Member had been heard in 
 his defence; 
 
 I. ff That it is agairift the law and ufage of 
 ^ c Parliament, and a high breach of the Privi- 
 *' c lege of this Hoiife^ to write or publifh* or 
 " caiiie to be written dr ptiblifhed; any fcatida- 
 * c loiis or libellous reflexions on the honour and 
 " juftice of this Hbufe, in any of the im- 
 * { peachments or profecutions in which it is 
 " engaged." 
 
 II. " Tliat ib appears to this Holife that 
 the laid Letter now delivered in^ is a fcari- 
 daloiis and libellous Paper, reflefling on 
 the honour and juftice of this Houfe^ and on 
 the conduct cf the Managers appointed to 
 
 ll conduft the Impeachment now prociseding 
 againft Warren Bailings. Efq." 
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 Major Scott being called upon from 
 Chair, rofe and faid, 
 
 Mr. S p E A K i. R, 
 
 JDEFORE J enter upon my defence, I mu& 
 exprcfs my acknowledgements to the Ho- 
 nourable General for the very fair and can- 
 did manner in which he has opened the 
 charge that he has thought proper to 
 prefer againft me. In the firft place, I do 
 moft folemnly difavow the flighted inten- 
 tion that I had, to do any thing that could 
 be conftrued into an invafion of the privi- 
 leges of the Houfe of Commons, 
 
 The peculiar fituation in which I ftand 
 at the prefent moment, will, I flatter my- 
 felf, Mr. Speaker, plead my excufe to the 
 Houfe, For detaining them a mort time, but 
 I promife them it {hall be as mort as poffi- 
 bk. 
 
 I muft canfefs to you, Sir, that I did not* 
 expect at this time of day fbch a motion 
 from fuch a quarter. I know that this 
 Houfe poUeffes great and important privi- 
 leges;
 
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 leges ; I know that the privileges of the 
 Houfe are daily broke in upon ; but, as 
 there are fome rules " more honoured in 
 the breach than in the obfervance," I have 
 always fuppofed, that in a country the freed 
 ;n the whole world, this Houfe had con- 
 fented to difpenfe with the rigid obfervance of 
 fomeof its privileges, retaining, however,the 
 full power to refume them ; and where liberty 
 (hall be pleaded as an excufe for licentiouf- 
 pefs, the Houfe will confult their own dig- 
 nity, their own honour, and their juftice, in 
 calling the offender to a fevere example. I 
 believe, Sir, it has been obferved in almoft 
 every trial for a libel in the Courts below, 
 that the fared way to preferre the freedom 
 of the prefs, is to punifh the abufeofit. 
 Upon this ground, Mr. Speaker, I wifh my 
 conduct to be confidered, and upon no other 
 I am fure, will it be coniidered by a body 
 of Gentlemen, who prizing the bleflings of 
 a ee confutation, will be at all times 
 ready to. fupport, in its fulleft extent, the 
 freedom of the pr,efs. I know it to be one 
 of the (landing orders of this Houfe, that no 
 ftrangers (hall be admitted into the gallery $ 
 yet, Sir, our ga&ery is always and very pro- 
 B 2 perly
 
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 pcrly full of Grangers. I am aware that it is ^ 
 breach of privilege, for any man to publifr; 
 the fpeeches of this Houfe ; yet, we'know^ 
 that every day's debate is regularly publifhed^ 
 and with great accuracy in general, on the 
 following morning, and we have very good 
 realbn to believe, that on, important quef- 
 tions in this Houfe fome members write; 
 their own fpeeches, and I will appeal tq 
 the recollection of every Gentleman, whe- 
 ther men of the firir. eminence in the Hpufe^ 
 have not thought it of importance, to cor- 
 ^edt any mifreprefentation that has occafion- 
 ally been made of their fpeeches, by an ex- 
 planation on the following day ; but no 
 perfon ever thinks of excluding grangers 
 from the gallery, or prohibiting the publi- 
 cation of the Members fpeeches, becaufe 
 it has fometimes happened, that errors have, 
 been committed, in publishing what Gen 
 tlemen have not faid in this Houfe. 
 
 The precedent of the year 1701, does 
 not apply in any degree. At that time the 
 panners and cufloms of all ranks of people 
 were different, and the publick knew little 
 of the proceedings in Parliament, beyond 
 
 what
 
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 what appeared upon the Journals; bat iu, 
 thefe enlightened days, they know what 
 their reprefentatives do every day, and they 
 have a right to know it. I perfectly concur 
 jn opinion with the Right Hon. Gentleman 
 (Mr. Fox) that thofe who fend us to this 
 Houfe have a right to be acquainted with 
 what pafles in it. For many years back 
 the Members of this Houfe have obligingly 
 (many of them at leaft) explained to the 
 publick their conduct in parliament, and I 
 hold now in my hand twelve fpecches and 
 pamphlets on political fubjedts, published 
 by a Right Hon. Gentleman over the way, 
 (Mr. Burke) which J mall more particu- 
 larly refer to by and by. The queilion 
 then to confider is, whether in my remarks 
 upon a fpeech of a Right Hon, Gentleman, 
 or rather upon the report of that fpeech, I 
 have deviated from that line of propriety, 
 which as a Member of Parliament, or, as 
 a Gentleman, I am bound to obferve. But, 
 though my letter is really and truly a re- 
 mark upon a fpeech in a paper, yet I will 
 neither be mean nor bafe enough to flicker 
 jnyfelf under fuch a fubterfuge. I have 
 fead it again and again, but cannot find an 
 
 ofFeniiye
 
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 Oifenflve word in it. Will the Hon. Ge 
 neral point out any thing ofFenfive in the 
 language, or abfurd in the argument? I 
 fhall be glad to meet him upon that ground. 
 I will very fhortly, Mr. Speaker, examine 
 the facets that I have afTerted one by one, 
 and I defy the united abilities of the Gen- 
 tlemen oppofite to me to difpute the veracity 
 of any one of them. The firfr,, Sir, is the 
 ftory of the three thouland pounds liated to 
 have been paid by Mr. Mailings, at the 
 India Houfe, for copying papers. Am I 
 to blame for the circulation of that ridicu-r 
 lous tale? or am I charged for a libel, be- 
 caufe I arrefted a libel in its courfe ? Men 
 who are profecuting for acls which involve, 
 as they fay, the defolation of Provinces, 
 the banifhment of Princes, the robbery of 
 Ladies, &c. one fliould imagine, would be 
 above attending to fuch nonfenfe. Yet, 
 when a Right Hon. Gentleman thought 
 proper to make a ferious enquiry into fuch 
 tittle-tattle fluff, and to involve my name 
 in it; when men of rank and confequence 
 repeated the ftory again, I was juflified in 
 declaring what I again repeat, that the ftory 
 has no foundation in truth, either- as it re- 
 
 fpcfts.
 
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 fpefls Mr. Haftings or myfclf. If there are 
 any peribns who are to be afhamed, they 
 are thofe who fir ft brought fuch con- 
 temptible nonfenfe before the publick. 
 
 My next aflertion is, that the length to 
 which the trial has been protracted, has 
 excited the regret of every honeft man in 
 England, and the aflonifhment of every en- 
 lightened ftatefman in Europe. 1 folemnly 
 deny that this was meant as a reflection upon 
 the Houfe, but that the remark is founded 
 in truth, I will maintain before the whole 
 world. Sir, the next afTertion in my letter 
 is, that an account ftated in a morning 
 paper, that the delays in the trial are im- 
 putable to Mr. Haftings, a*e not true, that 
 to fay fo, is to add infult to injury. Had I 
 flopped here, the Houfe might with jufticc 
 accufe me of audacity; but I have given 
 my reafons for adding, that I believe it was 
 the original intention of the Right Hon. 
 Gentleman not to bring the Trial to a clofe 
 in the prefent Parliament. If every honeft 
 man in the kingdom will lay his hand 
 upon his heart, and deliver his opinion, I 
 am convinced it will exactly coincide with 
 
 mine.
 
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 hiine. But I have ftill flronger evidence to 
 bffer upon this point. Such Gentlemen as 
 have attended in V/eftminfler Hall, cannot 
 but obferve the flo'w progrefs of the prefent 
 Trial. I own I am aftonifhed at the pa- 
 tience and forbearance of both Houfes. 
 Sir, we the profecutors have been proving 
 for feveral days,- -I beg pardon, I mean we 
 have been attempting to prove, that Mr; 
 Haftings by a fyftem he eftablifhed ia 
 1781, brought great lofs and damage to 
 the revenues of the Eafl-India Company, 
 though our Manager's proved three months 
 ago that the change of fyflem was attended 
 by an actual incrdafe of revenue, amount- 
 ing to nearly 400*000!. in three years. If 
 there is one Gentleman in this Houfe 
 doubts the truth of this; let him borrow 
 the evidence, and look into page 119:6. 
 Sir$ upon the next fact the Houfe will 
 determine; I think the juftice of the re- 
 
 * Mr. Wright, Auditor of jtndiah accourits, produced 
 an account of the nett collections in Bengal for the three 
 years preceding the abolition of the Provincial Council?; 
 and three year* fubftquent to it; This was entered upon 
 the minutes of evidence by order of their Lofdlhips, on 
 the 2}d of Februa-y, and in the increafe in the latter pe- 
 riod is 53,72,072 rupees, about 4.00,000!. fterling.
 
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 flection no man will difpute, but I haVe 
 put it hypothetically, and I now afk 
 the Hoafe and the country, whether it 
 was juft or honourable to impeach a man 
 for acts that he was faid to have done in 
 the year 1772, which were fully known in 
 1776 in Great -Britain, upon which not 
 one tittle of new evidence, is or can be 
 brought, when fubfequent to the year 1776, 
 he has three feveral times been appointed 
 by the Legiflature, on the motion of the 
 Minifter, Governor General of Bengal? 
 Surely fuch a queftion is a fair one, and if 
 ever pertinently put, put at fuch a time as 
 this, when we may be on the eve of a war. 
 I have put the queftion hypothetically, but 
 I am neither afraid nor amamed to fay that 
 I think it was unworthy of a great nation. 
 The very fame obfervation fell from a 
 Member of great conn* deration in his place*, 
 while the articles were depending in this 
 .Houfe. He expreiled his conviction that 
 the Houfe would never impeach Mr. 
 
 * The Lord Prefident of the Court of Seffion, at th.it; 
 time Lord Advocate of Scotland. 
 
 C Haftings
 
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 Haftings for acts done in 1772, univerfally 
 known, and virtually fanctioned by three 
 fubfequent re- appointments. He men- 
 tioned the cafe of Sir Walter Raleigh, and 
 faid that the impeachment of Mr. Haftings 
 upon this part of the article, would be 
 more unjuft than the execution of that 
 great man, who after condemnation, was 
 taken from the Tower to be employed on 
 foreign fervice, and put to death after his 
 return to England. The Houfe merely 
 voted that there was matter of impeachment 
 in the charge as originally brought, and 
 that charge contained a great variety of al- 
 legations. The article was drawn by the 
 Committee, and voted by the Houfe, without 
 any difcuffion. The next point, Mr. Speaker, 
 is what I took as I ftate from the'newf- 
 paper, for I really was not in the Houfe at 
 the time the Right Hon. Gentleman gave 
 notice of the motion he intended to make. I 
 mean as to the new and dangerous doctrines 
 that he had heard in Weftminfter Hall -, I 
 abide by the. reflection I made upon that cir- 
 cumftance. The next point is a matter in 
 which the dignity and juftice of this Houfe 
 
 is
 
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 is moft materially concerned ; on which 
 its character for confiftency throughout 
 the country materially depends. I do 
 affirm, Mr. Speaker, that the Houfe upon 
 this point is involved in a very unfortunate 
 dilemma, owing to the degree of confidence 
 they have repofed in the Gentlemen op- 
 pofite me. When I ftate the fads, the 
 Houfe will judge of the proper meafures 
 to be purfued. Of the twenty articles 
 compoiing the Impeachment, there is one 
 entitled Revenues, on which fo much time 
 Jias been employed in Weftminfter Hall. 
 When that article was under the confider- 
 ation of a Committee of the whole Houfe, 
 the Minifter not only voted, but fpoke 
 againft it - f and he proved frdm. accurate 
 calculations, that by Mr. Haftings's change 
 of fyflem in 1781, a conjiderable advantage 
 had accrued to the Eaft India Company. 
 He proved alfo, that no fort of favour was 
 {hewn by Mr. Hallings to his fervant 
 Cantoo Baboo, who had been a very con- 
 fiderable farmer of revenue, before Mr, 
 Haftings arrived- in Bengal. It happened, 
 however, that upon the division, the Mi- 
 fifter was left in a minority, and the quef- 
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 tion was carried by a majority of fifteen, 
 for impeaching Mr. Haftings upon that arv 
 tide. This was the only debate in the 
 Houfe upon the fubject, for when the ar- 
 ticle was prefented in the form in which 
 it ^iow is, it patted like all the others, 
 without obfervation or comment, and I 
 am fure without being looked at ; be~ 
 caufe either it contains an aflertion palr- 
 .pably and notorioufly falfe, or certain re- 
 folutions moved for four years fncceflively 
 are notorioufly falfe, for tnis moil intelli- 
 gible of all reafons, that they are mani- 
 feftly contradictory, the one to the other, 
 as I mall prove in a few words, and unlefs 
 it be true that two and two make five as 
 well as four, both are not true. This arr- 
 tide f impeachment ftates, that Mr. 
 Haftings's adminiftration of the Revenues 
 was attended with great lof$ and damage to 
 the Revenues of the Haft-India Company, 
 and with the vexation, oppreffion and de- 
 ilrudion of the' natives of Bengal. It was 
 voted by the Houfe of Commons in the month 
 0f May, j 787. Now it happened that a very 
 few days before this vote, the Houfe voted 
 anpther Refolutipn directly the reverfe Q.f 
 
 it.
 
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 it. That Rdblution was moved by a Right 
 Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Dunchs) and is in 
 fuWtance as follows : That the annual Re- 
 ceipts of the Bengal Government on an 
 average of three years from 1781-2 to 
 1783-4 were five hundred and two lagks 
 of rupees. The Right Hon. Gentleman 
 did not merely content himfelf with mov- 
 ing this refolution, but he reafoned upon 
 it at great length, and he affirmed, as is 
 undoubtedly the truth, that Bengal was 
 the beil governed country in India. This 
 is the average of the three years of JMr. 
 H^ftmgs's adminiftration, that immediately 
 foiiowed the change of a fyftem, a change 
 fo much condemned by the Managers. I 
 will do the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. 
 Dundas) the juitice to fay he alfo voted 
 againft the Revenue Article ; but as the 
 Houfe has had an India Budget in 1788, 
 1789, and 1790, and as it has voted Re- 
 folution s each year which prove, that fo 
 far from Mr. Haftings having overftrained 
 the country in order to get a large temporary 
 Revenue, the lail year's Revenues are 
 highef than the preceding, I do own I am 
 #qt a little ailonilhed, that the Houfe ftiil 
 
 per-
 
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 permits the Revenue Article to fhin its 
 Journals, or allows its Managers to go 
 on day after day, attempting to prove what 
 if it could be proved, muft difgrace the 
 Houfe of Commons ; namely, that for 
 four years fucceffively it has entered falfe 
 Refolutions upon the Journals. I contend, 
 that the Refclutions are true, and that the 
 Article is falfe. Thofe who differ in 
 opinion with me, thofe who fupport the 
 Article, mujl condemn the Refolution. Was- 
 it Sir, indecent, or improper in me, to at- 
 tempt to avert the mifchiefs which the 
 public might fuftain, by a grofs perverfion 
 of the fenfe of Lord Cornwallis's letter ? 
 Is there a man in England fo ftupid, as 
 to believe that a country is depopulated 
 and ruined, which furnimed fupplies for 
 maintaining feventy thoufand men in arms 
 during the late war, which fince the re- 
 ductions, in confequence of the peace, has 
 furnifhed a furplus of more than two millions 
 flerling a year, and from which Lord Corn- 
 wallis himfelfte\\s us, we may depend upon 
 the continuance of fuch a furplus in future ? 
 I think, Sir, by explaining this matter, I
 
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 and with the publick. It is the duty of 
 every Member of Parliament to fupport 
 the Government of the country as far as 
 he can ; and I am not afraid to avow, that 
 I have often written upon the Revenues 
 and Refources of this country, and I mall 
 ever be ready to avow it. As to my 
 ftatement of the Revenues, fo different 
 from that of the Gentlemen oppofite me, 
 I will pledge my falvation upon the truth 
 of my account, unlefs they will prove, that 
 Lord Cornwallis has tranfmitted falfe ac- 
 counts from Bengal. Look to the Reports 
 upon your Table, and you will fee, that 
 when Mr. Haftings came to the Govern- 
 ment of Bengal, the whole Refources of 
 that Government were 313 lacks of rupees. 
 Look to your Journals, and you will fee, 
 that when he quitted the Government, they 
 were 520 lacks, and that now they are 
 530 lacks*. In oppofition to this broad 
 
 * The account of the total receipts of the Bengal 
 Government, the year preceding Mr. Haftings's accef- 
 fion to th^t Government, is taken from the fifth Report 
 of the Secret Committee (Mr. Dundas's). The account 
 of the total receipts of the Bengai Government daring the 
 
 four
 
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 9 is it not enough to make a man lofe his 
 patience, when he he hears it aflerted in the 
 name of the Houfe of Commons, that Ben- 
 gal has declined during his Adminiflration ? 
 Sir, there is one other point that I muft 
 mention. The Honourable General fays, 
 if I faw any thing wrong, it was my duty 
 to ftate it to this Houfe. Have 1, Mr, 
 Speaker, negle&ed my duty in this parti- 
 cular ? On the contrary, I am afraid I 
 have troubled you too often, but it is a 
 point of fo much confequence, that I do hope 
 
 four laft years of Mr. Haftings's Adminiftration, is en- 
 tered upon the Journals of the Houfe of Commons. The 
 annual receipts upon an average of three years, froifi 
 1781-2 to 1783-4, are five hundred and two lacks. 
 From 1782-3 to 1784-5, five hundred and twenty-one 
 lacks. Mr. Haftings refigned on the ift of February 
 1785. This average therefore includes the three laft 
 years of his Adminiflration. If what is contained in the 
 Journals, and Mr. Dundas's Reports are true, the accounts 
 flands thus : 
 
 Total refources when he left Bengal - - 521 Lacks 
 Total refources when he arrived there - 313 
 
 Total annual increafe during his adminiftration 208 Lacks 
 
 Or more than two millions ceding. The laft annual re- 
 ceipts, from 1786-7, to 1778-9, as entered in the Jour- 
 nals of the 3<i of May, 1790, make the Receipts five 
 hundred and thirty lacks. Thefe fadis are unanf-juerable. 
 
 the
 
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 the time will come when Gentlemen of 
 tnore importance will take it up -, for it is 
 a point in which the honour, as well as 
 the juflice of the Houfe, is deeply intereftecL 
 
 I am afraid, Mr. Speaker^ that I have 
 tired and difgufted the Houfe by fo often 
 repeating the fame remarks ; and fo far 
 have I been from neglecting my duty, of 
 Which the Honourable General accufes 
 me, that I have been conftantly upon the 
 waf ch> and have feized every practicable op* 
 portuniry to bring fo important a matter 
 before Parliament and the publick* 
 
 I have told Gentlemen, that though I 
 cordially concurred in the ftatements 
 made by the India Minifter, they were 
 directly contrary to the Articles of Im- 
 peachment* and if the Refolutions were 
 truej what was faid in our name in Weft- 
 rninfter Hall, muft be falfe. I am placed 
 in that iitUation, that I rn'ijl Jland of Jalt 
 in the opinion of this Houfe t a 'fid of my conn* 
 try* by the truth of 'what t have ajj'ertcd. 
 
 I have repeatedly faid, within this Houfe 
 D and
 
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 and out of it, that we palTed Thirteen Arti- 
 cles without reading them. Did I act meanly 
 or bafely by the Houfe ? Did I lie in wait 
 to entrap them ? If I had acted fo vile a 
 part, I mould well indeed dekrve the indig- 
 nation of this Houfe; but I defy the Ho- 
 nourable General to fay that I have ever 
 put the cafe more forcibly out of the Houfe 
 than I have done in it. I warned the 
 Houfe of what they were doing at the 
 time they did it. I told them, I was 
 fure that if they read thofe articles, they 
 would never pafs them *. I cannot x appeal to 
 you, Sir, for the truth of this, becaufe you 
 were not in the Chair at the time, but I am 
 lure the Gentlemen who fit at the Table 
 ,remember it : I intreated, I implored the 
 Houfe to read the Articles before they voted 
 them. Tbefe Ar ticks are directly contrary 
 to refolutions upon your Journals; they 
 criminate the Directors and the King's Mi- 
 'n ifters. Thefe -Articles denominate Hyder 
 "Beg Khan, the Minifter of the Nabob of 
 -Oude, an Implacable tyrant ; and' they con- 
 demn Mr. Hailings for putting fo much 
 
 * See the Parliamentary Debates 28tK May, 1787, the 
 day thefe thirteen articles were carried to the Lords. 
 
 power
 
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 power in his hands. Yet Lord Corn- 
 wallis tells you, for you have his letter upon 
 your Table*, that in his final arrangeme- 
 
 * The following are exat copies of the papers here allu- 
 ded to. 
 
 ^Qtb April, 1787. 
 " Lord Cornwallis, 
 
 " The only material difference which has taken place 
 " in the engagements between this Government and the 
 " Nabob Vizier, relates to the brigade itationed at Fut- 
 *' tyghur, the continuance of which body of troops, in the 
 ff dominions of the Vizier, I deem equally eflential to 
 " the intereft of the Vizier and the Company. In other 
 * f refpefts I have nearly adhered to the principles e/laUiJbeci 
 " by the former Governor Gewa! t ~Mr. Hajlings, and fmce 
 Cf confirmed by the orders of the Honour able Court of Directors j 
 tf all the fubfidiary arrangements have been formed with 
 " a uicv tojlrengthen tbofe principles, and render them pc> 
 " manent. 
 
 (Signed) CORNWALLIS." 
 
 8//> April, 1789. 
 
 Anfwer from the Court of Directors to Bengal. 
 " Having attentively perufed all the minutes, proceed- 
 '* ing?, and letters referred to in thefe paragraphs, and iu 
 ** your fubfcquent advices on the fubjecl of the late agree- 
 *' mcnt concluded by Lord Cornwallis with the Vi- 
 " zier, we approve of the general arrangement, and of 'the 
 *' principles on which it ivas formed " 
 
 The approbation of this paragraph figned 
 
 HSNRV DUNDAS. 
 W. W. GREKVILLS. 
 
 MuLGRAVi.. 
 
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 irants he has nearly adhered to the principles 
 laid down by the former Governor General, 
 Mr. Hajlings,. 
 
 All the fubfidiary arrangements are 
 formed, as his Lordfhip fays, with a view to. 
 jlrengthen thofe principles and render them 
 permanent. To this the King's Minifters reply- 
 through the Directors, that having attentively 
 confidered the whole fubjedt, and perufed the 
 whole proceeding, they approved of the ge- 
 neral arrangement, and of the principles on 
 ^hich itivasfor-med: What principles ? why. 
 Sir, the very principles which this Houfe, with- 
 &ut knowing one word about the matter, has 
 condemned -, the principles, which when 
 carried into practice, procure an annual fub- 
 iidy of fifty lacks from the Nabob, which 
 pays the expence of one- third of our army. 
 I hope the Houfe will excufe me, if upon 
 this fubjecl: I mould a little forget the mo- 
 deration that becomes me ; but the contra- 
 dictions are fo palpable, that I own, 1 am 
 }oft in aftonilhment, when I refle4| upon 
 them. Let not the Houfe be difpleafed 
 
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 \yith me for laying facts fairly before them, 
 Thofe are to blame who have abufed the 
 generous confidence which this Houfe. 
 placed in them, Sir, I hope I fljall not 
 be accufed of difrefpect to the- Houfe of 
 Commons. I call God to witnefs I mean 
 
 It not. The Houfe confided in 
 
 their 
 
 Committee; after agreeing to the impeach- 
 
 ment, it voted the articles without 
 
 dif- 
 
 cuffing the particulars, and it has happened, 
 that many acts are ilated as, criminal, 
 which the Houfe has fanctioned as hjghly 
 meritpriou's in another character. 
 
 And now, Mr. Speaker, having entered 
 ipto a full, and I hope a fatisfoctory e^pla- 
 nation of my conduct, let me fuppofe, for 
 a moment, that J have acted irregularly, 
 gr improperly in what I have done. To 
 what I have faid | have put my name, 
 Some proof furely that I meant to do no 
 
 wrong. But, admitting for a moment 
 J have been mifled : By whom is it t 
 have been milled ? By the Gentlemen 
 
 that 
 
 lat I 
 
 op- 
 
 pofite to me, and I do confefs myfelf ( at a 
 Jpfs to difcoyer with what degree of fon-s 
 
 fMcy,
 
 fiftency, luch a motion, as is now prcpofed, 
 can come from fuch a quarter. The Ho* 
 nourable Gentleman is pleafed to compli- 
 ment me upon my knowledge of my duty 
 as a Member of Parliament. I do allure 
 you, Mr. Speaker, it has been my ftudy 
 to acquire that knowledge, and if I have 
 erred, it is by following what I thought 
 juftifiable precedents. J never could con-, 
 ceive, Sir, that a moderate, temperate exa- 
 mination of what is dated in a public 
 paper, could have been conftrued into a 
 breach of privilege, but much lefs, Sir* 
 could I conceive it poffible, after per u ling 
 the durious precedents- that I mall now 
 prodlice, I will not quote the common 
 Parliamentary Debates or the newfpapers as 
 authority, but J will afk every Gentleman 
 in tils Houfe, whether it has not been 
 the invariable practice of Gentlemen op- 
 pofife to rnc, to arraign with the ut- 
 moft freedom fuch acts of the majority, 
 as they difapproved ; I mean in public 
 meetings, in the mape of refolutions, 6cc. ? 
 But, Sir, I will now ftate to you certain, 
 curious fads ; and firft, I fliall bring to 
 
 your
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 your notice a pamphlet entitled, " Mr. 
 " Burke's Speech on the Motion made for 
 " Papers^ 28th of February, i. 8.5*." In the 
 title page there is a long Greek quotation, 
 which I am not able to translate for you. 
 Every thing contained in that fpeech, the 
 Gentleman had a right to lay j but with 
 what confiftency he can fupport a motion 
 againft me, after publiming, many months 
 fuhfequent to the fpeech, this pamphlet, 
 I am at a lofs to difcover. Surely, Sir, it 
 was no longer a fpeech, but, according to 
 the law of this day, a libel upon Parlia- 
 ment. The firft paflage that I {hall fe- 
 lec~t, is as follows, and the Houfe will fee 
 it is very much in the ftyle of the Gentle- 
 man's orations in Weftminfter Hall. 
 
 " Let no man hereafter talk of the de- 
 ce cayihg energies of nature ; all the^Wds 
 c< and monuments in the records of pecu- 
 " lati'on, the confolidated corruption of 
 " ages, the patterns of exemplary plunder 
 4t in the heroic times of Roman iniquity, 
 " never equalled the gigantick carraption 
 *' of -this iingle acl. Never did Nero, in 
 
 * Printed b Dcd^e..
 
 ( 24 ) 
 
 " all the infolent prodigality of defpotifm^ 
 " deal out to his Praetorian guards a 
 " donation fit to be named with the 
 " largefs fhowered down by the bounty 
 " of our Chancellor of the Exchequer on 
 '* the faithful band of his Indian feapoys.'* 
 The ne'xt is as follows " Your Minifters 
 " knew, when they figned the death war- 
 " rant of the Carnatick, that the Nabob 
 " would not only turn all the unfortunate 
 " fanners of revenue out of employment, 
 " but that he has denounced his levereft 
 t( vengeance againft them for acting under 
 " Britifh authority. With a knowledge of 
 " this difpofition, a Britifh Chancellor of 
 " the Exchequer, and Treafurer of the 
 " Navy, incited by no public advantage, 
 " impelled by no public neceffity, in a 
 " Jtcain of the moft wanton perfidy, which 
 " has ever flained the annals of mankind, 
 <( have delivered over to plunder, im- 
 " prifonment, exile and death, itfelf, ac- 
 " cording to the mercy of fuch execrable 
 " tyrants as, &c. &c. the unhappy and 
 " deluded fouls, who, untaught by uni- 
 ^ form example, were flill weak enough 
 4 " to
 
 t{ to put their truft in Englifli faith*." 
 Does the Houfe know who the Chancel- 
 lor 
 
 * Any gentleman who will read the fpeeches of 'Mr. 
 Burke and his aflbciates with the fame attention that Ma- 
 jor Scott has done, will find many paflages fimilar to this 
 very curious one, applied to Lord North during the Ame- 
 rican war, and to Mr. Mailings in Weflminfler Hall ; we 
 fhr.ll feledl two or three of the latter. 
 
 IVTr. Burke, ill year. " The crimes we charge are not 
 " the caufes and effects of common human frailty j fuch 
 " as we know and feel we can allow for, but they 
 " are crimes which have their rife in avarice, rapacity, 
 " pride, cruelty, ferocity, malignity of temper, haughti- 
 " nefs, infolence ; in fhort, in every thing that manifefb 
 " a heart blackened to the very blacked, a heart dyed 
 " deep in blacknefs r a heart gangrened to the very core. 
 
 " Thefe gentlemen had for their Director and Regifter, 
 " the very per'fon who communicated between them and 
 <f the country government, an agent given to them by 
 " HafHngs, a name that you will often hear of,Ja name, at 
 " the found of which all India grows pale, 
 " the moil atrocious, the boldeft, and mod 
 lain that ever that country produced. 
 
 A man unufual to oratorical flouriihes would hardly 
 believe that this fame Gunga Govand Sing, has been ouc 
 of <ffice almoft as long as Lord North, enjoying, ac- 
 cording to the manners of his country', the fame otium 
 cum dignitate, that his Lordfhip does here. He could 
 not have been mere abufcd than Lord North was whili in 
 office, and bis enemies have never yet fixed criminality upon 
 him, though he convifted them both of forgery and per- 
 jury, in the Supreme Court of judicature. 
 
 E Mr.
 
 C 26 ) 
 
 lor of the Exchequer is, ahd who is the 
 Treafurer of the Navy, of whom the 
 
 Gentleman 
 
 Mr. Ba.ke, zd year. *' For he, (Air. Haftings) mur. 
 " dered th::t :;:a;i [Nundcomar] by the hands of Sir L'i- 
 te jah Impey. 
 
 Mr. Grey, iftyear. " This country [Benares] whichhas 
 " been eminent for it riches, revered for itsfan&iy, and a 
 " garden in point of prefervation ; this favoured fpot, to 
 "which the merchants reforted for commerce, and the pi> 
 " ous for religion ; this country which the Mahomedaiv 
 11 conquerors of the Eafthad refpeftcd, and leftunmolelted, 
 " which even the more pitylefs arm of Eritifh violence 
 fs had happily fpared this happy nation this terreftrial 
 " paradife this feat of plenty this land flowing with 
 " milk and honej , now become the feat of wretchednefs 
 "anddefpair its temples polluted, and its laws reverfed. 
 * f Liccntioufnefs took place of order mi'itary violence 
 ** fubdued all reftraint; the country itfclf became adefert, 
 " and ruin and avarice completed the horrid work of de- 
 - r v Ml a' ion. 
 
 4tffff&>. " Since the "government of Benares has 
 "' been adminiftercd by the Englifli, that holy city has en- 
 <f creafed one-third in its buildings and reputation." 
 
 Mr. Pelham, ift year. " It will be proved by incontro- 
 " vertible fafts, that he (Mr. Haftings) was not only the 
 " greateft oppreilbr, that he was not only the greateft tyrant 
 " that ever appeared on the Indian conft, but alfo \\\& great - 
 " eft peculator ; that he was the mcji corrupt , that he was the 
 tf mojt cruel, that he never ftirred fram Calcutta, never un- 
 ft dertook any great political plan, but with a view of in- 
 *' creafing his own iniquities, by filling the trcafures of th 
 '* Company, or with a view of filling his own pockets." 
 
 Apafiage
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 Gentleman Ipeaks fo freely ? The firft 
 is the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) 
 below me on the floor; the fecond is a Right 
 Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Dundas)not nowin 
 his place, who is often denominated the 
 Minifter of India in this Houfe. Yet thofe 
 are the terms he applies to two Gentlemen, 
 adting under the authority, and with the 
 approbation of Parliament. 
 
 This Gentleman then proceeds to argue, 
 with the utmoft freedom, that an arrange-, 
 ment formed by the Right Honourable 
 Gentleman below me, (Mr. Pitt) under 
 the fanclion of Parliament, was a corrupt 
 and fcandalous bargain, in order to re- 
 pay certain perfons the expences they in- 
 
 A paffage in Mr. Sheridan's fpceca in the firft year, is al- 
 moft a tranflript of what Major Scott read in the Houfe, as 
 applied to Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dunda?, by Mr^j^k^ Mr. 
 Sheridan's Tpecch is very happily and literally verfified by 
 Simkin. 
 
 " Not all the tyrannical acts of pad ages 
 " Not Tacitus : No! not the luminous pages 
 " Of Gibbon bimfelf, can an inftance produce, 
 " Of authority turn'd t > fo wicked a ufe ; 
 *' No fuch cruelty ever was exercis'd in 
 " This world, fince the days of Original Sin. 
 [Mr. Gibbon was at the elbow of Mr. Sheridan, when 
 this elegant compliment was paid him.] 
 
 E 3 curred
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 currcd, by bringing Members into this 
 Houfe at the laft election ; and will this 
 Gentleman vote again ft rne, for my mo- 
 derate difcuflion- of a nswfpaper fpeech ? 
 Will this Gentleman pafs a vote of cenfure 
 upon me for giving my reafons in fupport 
 of an opinion that I can never give up, 
 namely, that it was his intention not to 
 clofe the profecution of Mr. Haftings be- 
 fore the diflblution ? He, who after flat- 
 ing an Act to be flagrantly corrupt which 
 was done under the fandtion of the Houfe, 
 and the three branches of the legiflature - 
 He, who has affigned reafons for that 
 act which never entered into the head of 
 any human being but himfelf ? 
 
 The next refpectahle authority that I 
 mall fjujpte, is from a pamphlet written 
 by Richard Brinfley Sheridan, Efq; A 
 " Comparitive View of the India Bills of 
 Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, addrefled to J. M. 
 Efq; with eight ftars, in Staffordiliire." 
 In this the Ads of the Houfe, and of 
 the Legiflature, are treated with the utmoft 
 freedom. I mail only felect the following 
 paflages x becaufe they will nat tire the 
 Houfe: 
 
 r A&
 
 ( 29 ) 
 
 ' i. " As to the Declaratory Law itfelf, 
 and the plea which was made for it, we 
 *' feem to be perfectly agreed upon that 
 " fubjeft. The papers laid before the Houfe 
 <e of Commons, certainly contain, as you 
 <( obferve, a complete refutation of all the 
 " pretences upon which the fending out the 
 ** four regiments to India was defended as 
 " a meafure of neceffity. And ftill more 
 " ftrongly do I agree with you in your re- 
 <f marks upon Declaratory Ac~ts in general, 
 " and upon the nature of this Declaratory 
 " Adi in particular. It is indeed an alarm- 
 " ing and an unfortunate event in the Kif- 
 <f tory of Parliament for it is one that 
 " makes the foundation of that fecurity 
 " which all men hope from law, and of 
 " that refpe<ft which all men owe to it - 
 " to fee the Repreientatiyes of the people 
 " perfuaded to intercept the ordinary courfe 
 " ofjuftice, to aflume themfclvesa judicial 
 " chara-tler, and, upon the fuggeftion of 
 <f the King's Minifters, to determine a 
 " queftion of property, in favour of tlic 
 " fervants of the Crown, agaipft the claims 
 *< of tJie fubjccl! 
 
 " Nor
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 *' Nor can our appreheniions of the 
 * confequences of this precedent be dimi^ 
 " nifhed, by reflecting upon the manner in 
 " which the meafure was carried through 
 " the Houle of Lords -, by reflecting, that 
 " the fupreme Court of Judicature in this 
 " country, mould have been induced by 
 " any influence, or by any eloquence, or 
 " upon any plea of neceffity, pretended or 
 " real, to decide with unparalleled pre- 
 '* cipitation upon a conftruclion of law 
 " in the abfence of the Judges of the land, 
 " and without granting a hearing to the 
 " parties interefled in their decifion." 
 
 2. "If it were worth reafoning or ar- 
 " guingupon, it would be no difficult mat- 
 <{ ter to prove that this crooked fyftem of 
 * f involved myflery and contradictory duties, 
 " could never have been meant for any 
 *< fair purppfe of good government." 
 
 3. " Whether under this loofe and arrq- 
 ** gant mandate, fo unlike the temperate 
 " precifion of a Britifh law upon fuch a 
 v fubjedt, there is any one right, power, 
 
 " or
 
 * c or property of any fort, left to the Com* 
 ' pany, may reafonably be doubted." 
 
 Here, Sir, Acts of Parliament are moil 
 freely fpoken of. I do not fay improperly, 
 becaufe I approve of a fair and liberal dif- 
 cufiion of political fubjeds; but how the 
 Honourable Gentleman who wrote that 
 pamphlet, can vote againft me, I cannot 
 conceive. I truft I may addrefs Mr. 
 Woodfall upon a public fubjecl: with as 
 much fecurity as the lion. Gentleman 
 may write to a country Gentleman in the 
 county of Stafford, whofe name he does 
 not give us, and for whofe place of refi- 
 dence he fubftitutes eight ftars. The lafl 
 authority that I (hall quote, is that of 
 the Honourable General himfelf, who is 
 alfo an author, and not a defpicable one. 
 When he was on bad terms with fome of 
 the Gentlemen who (it near him, he wrote 
 the following pafiage in an addrefs to his 
 ccnftituents at Prcflon : 
 
 " During the laft ielTian ,of Parliament 
 " an enquiry was inflituted. The detail of 
 *' the attempts made by Miniftry to defeat 
 '* it, is too notorious to be necefTary upon 
 '* this accadon. They at laft contrived that 
 
 " it
 
 ( 3' ) 
 
 *' it mould be left imperfect." Is this no 
 *' reflexion upon the Houfe ? In another 
 place the Honourable General fays: " If 
 " the ftate of the nation in its wars; in its 
 " negociations; in its concerns with its re- 
 " maining colonies; or in the internal poli- 
 " cy and government of thefe kingdoms, 
 *' can afford the fmalleft countenance to an 
 " opinion of integrity, and capacity in Ad- 
 " miniftration, I am ready to abide every 
 " cenfure, for being, what I am, a deter- 
 " mined enemy to it; I have been in a fitu- 
 " ation to fee that in a complicated and 
 " alarming war, when unfupported by any 
 " alliances, the kingdom was left folely to 
 " its own native military force, that fole 
 " reliance was difcouraged and depreciated. 
 " I faw a fyflematical defign of villifying 
 " and difgracing every officer whom thofe 
 " Miniflers had ever employed by fea or 
 " land ; and thofe moil, who flood highefl 
 " in their feveral profeffions. The ruin of 
 " officers forms almoft the whole of their 
 " military fyftemj and if I have experienced 
 ' my full meafure of their hoftility, it only 
 " fhews the extent of their plan; having 
 
 " furniihed
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 " furnilhed little elfe than my zeal and 
 " induftry, as a title to their malevolence. 
 " As to their political plan, its object is to 
 " impofe upon the nation from feffion to 
 *' feffion. Far from profiting themfelves, . 
 " or fuffering others to profit by bitter 
 (< experience, they exift by bringing forth 
 " a fucceffion of deceits. I cannot mutmy 
 " eyes againft my own certain knowledge 
 *' of fome of the moft fatal of thefe deceits 
 " refpecting America; nor reftrain myjuft 
 " and natural indignation at their efforts* 
 ** without forfeiting every feeling for my 
 " country." 
 
 Let not Gentlemen fuppofe, becaufe 1 
 Hop here, that the fubject is exhaufted. 
 I hold in my hands twelve fpeeches and 
 pamphlets, -j- written by the Right Plonour- 
 able Gentleman (Mr. Burke) and I will 
 engage, that from each I extract expref- 
 fions infinitely ftronger than any which I 
 have ufed, upon any proceedings of the 
 Houfe of Commons. I deny that I have 
 ever faid or written a word difrefpectful to 
 this Houfe. The Houfe has been de* 
 f M\ printed by Dodflcy. 
 
 F ceived
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 ceived and mifled ; that I have faid, I fay 
 it again, and I will prove it if the Houfe 
 pleabs, by an appeal to your Journals. 
 The Houfe confided in their Committee 
 to draw up Articles of Impeachment 
 The Committee therefore has involved 
 the Houfe in contradictions, in fo far as 
 the articles condmn fyftems which Par- 
 liament has approved. I am much o- 
 bliged to the Houfe for their attention, 
 and will only detain them a moment 
 longer. It will be no j unification to 
 me if I have done wrong to prove 
 to the fatisfaction of thofe who are to 
 decide, that my accufers are fifty times 
 more guilty than I am. Yet, Sir, when I 
 coniider that the Charges originally pre- 
 fented by a Right Honourable Gentleman 
 (Mr. Burke) and the Articles were printed 
 and publickly fold all over the kingdom, 
 and that every circumilance attending 
 the trial of Mr. Haftings has received a 
 full difcuflion out of doors, I cannot 
 but admire that I mould be attacked by 
 thofe who have made the prefent com- 
 plaint to you. In one of the General's 
 
 Motions,
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 Motions, he calls me now, or late, an agent 
 of Mr. Haftings. I was in that character 
 when he was abroad ; I am not fo now, 
 unlefs he means as his warm and fteady 
 friend, who am ready to devote every fa- 
 culty that I have to his fervice. So far 
 as that I avow myfelf, but I deny that I 
 wrote the letter complained of in concert 
 with Mr. Haftings, or any other perfon. 
 We refide in different counties, very diftant 
 from each other, and the letter I wrote 
 on Sunday laft, at my Houle in the country, 
 from whence it was dated, nor was it feen 
 by a human being till I delivered it myfelf 
 into the Printer's hands on Monday, un- 
 lefs the fir ft meet, which I believe was 
 lying on the Table when one of my 
 daughters came into the room. I am thus 
 particular, Sir," becaufe the Honourable 
 General infinuated that every thing was 
 done in concert, and as part of a fet- 
 tled fyftem. So in the cafe of Captain 
 Williams ; I folemnly declare that Mr. 
 Haftings knew nothing about that matter. 
 The moment I favv the attack upon him 
 I did what I am fure he would have 
 
 done
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 done by me ; I fent him the paper, and 
 anfwered in the mean time as far as came 
 within -my own knowledge. As to the 
 poetry to which the Honourable Ge- 
 neral alludes (the letters of Simkin) it 
 is fo excellent, that I fancy the Ho- 
 nourable General reads it with pleafure* 
 but I do afTure him that the author 
 of thofe verfes is too independent both 
 in mind and fortune to ad: under the 
 direction of any perfon, or from any other 
 motive than his own conviction; and 
 here, Sir, I truft my caufe, having the 
 fulleft reliance upon the juflice and candour 
 of the Houfe. 
 
 p o s r-
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 THERE are three points in Major 
 Scott's Letter which he omitted to notice. 
 The firft, that the malicious llory of Deby 
 Sing had been fully refuted. The decifion 
 pf the Lords has made it clear, that what 
 Major Scott had formerly flated upon this 
 fubject was true, that there is no part of the 
 articles to which that Jlory could apply - y and, 
 as Mr. Burke has never thought proper to 
 bring it before the Houfe in the form of a 
 fpecific charge, which it was at all times in 
 his power to do, had there been grounds for 
 it, the public It will judge how far Major 
 Scott was founded in all he has , written 
 upon that fubject, as well as in the epithet 
 he has applied to it. 
 
 The next is relative to the opinion of 
 all India of the impeachment, and the tef- 
 timonials tranfmitted from the natives in 
 favour of Mr. Haftings. The firft afler- 
 tion is capable of the fulleft proof, but it 
 has not occurred to the Managers, to call 
 cither Mr. Shore or any of the gentlemen 
 4 returned 
 
 I5M686
 
 returned either in this year or the laft from 
 India 5 and the Britim nation thinks too 
 highly of Lord Cornwallis, to believe him 
 capable of a participation in fo detef- 
 table an impofition upon the people of 
 England, as he mufl have been a party to, 
 if thofe teftimonials had been procured by 
 improper influence, or if they did not bona 
 Jide contain the fentiments of the people. 
 
 The laft is, that the ftate of the Reve- 
 " nues and refources of Bengal, overturns all 
 " the arguments ufed by Mr. Fox in fupport 
 " of his Bill." Moft undoubtedly it does; for 
 it is evident from the prefent flate of Ben- 
 gal, that it .mufl have been in a progrefiive 
 ftate of improvement from the day Mr. 
 Haftings fucceeded to the government in 
 1772, when, for ihejirjt time, the Englifh, 
 took the government into their own hands ; 
 whereas the jett of Mr. Fox's argument 
 was, that the country had materially fuf- 
 fered under a Britiiri adminiilration, and 
 would be ruined if infant meafures were 
 not taken to prevent it. Indeed the preamble 
 to his Bill declares as much.. 
 
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