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 1789 
 
 Kajor Scott's Charge A- 
 
 gainst 
 11 nd 
 
 the Right 
 Burke 
 
 Honourable 
 
 By 
 John Scott
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 
 M A J OR SCO TT's 
 
 CHARGE 
 
 AGAINST THE 
 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 EDMUND BURKE, 
 
 FEBRUJRT 6, 1789. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON- 
 HOUSE, PICCADILLY. 
 
 M.DCC.LXXXIX,
 
 M A J OR S C T 7"s 
 CHARGE, 
 
 S MAJOR SCOTT to juft publljhed a 
 
 Edition of his " Reply to Mr. SHERIDAN'S 
 
 i 
 
 Comparative View of the India Bills of Mr. 
 Fox and Mr. PITT." To this he has prefixed 
 a Preface, dated a feiv days ago, from which we 
 lave taken the following extra ft : 
 
 TVTR. BURKE has told us more than once 
 lately, that he never makes an aflertion 
 which he is not prepared to prove. Now I 
 pledge myfelf, as a gentleman and a man of ho- 
 A 3 nour, 
 
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 nour, to prove, if Mr. Burke will call upon file 
 to do fo, that every fyllable which he uttered 
 upon the fubjed of Deby Sing, as it refpe&ed 
 Mr'. Railings, was unfounded, and that he knew 
 it to be fo at the time he fpoke in Weftminfter 
 Hall. 
 
 t pledge myfclf alfo to prove, that the horrid ads 
 which he ftated, and which modefty will not per- 
 mit me to repeat, never were committed at all, as 
 appeared, after the fulleft and moft ferious invefti- 
 gation, which was made and recorded, during the 
 government of Sir John Macpherfon. 
 
 Why Mr. Burke, after he was in habits of in- 
 timacy with Sir John, chofe to ftate as facts, 
 what that gentleman could have told him were 
 utterly falfe, I know not. 
 
 Why
 
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 Why Mr. Burke has never to the prefent mo- 
 ment acknowledged how grofsly he had mined 
 the world, cannot be accounted for upon any 
 principles which will do him credit. 
 
 But as my object ever will be to guard the pub* 
 lie againft the artful defigns of men who once at- 
 tempted, under the plea of humanity, and a ten- 
 der regard to the fufferings of millions, to fix 
 their own power on a foundation not to be fhaken, 
 I (hall be ready even to encounter the abilities of 
 Mr. Sheridan^ if he chufes, at any future period, 
 to draw a frefli comparifon between the India Bills 
 of Mr. Pitt and Mr Fox. 
 
 " Gentlemen who candidly confider the fticl? 
 " which I have dated, will determine whether 
 " the general principles of the Party,'* as evinced 
 by their practice, merit all that refpect which 
 Mr. Sheridan's country friend profefles to have 
 
 for them. Of the worth an integrity of many 
 A 4 indivi-
 
 individuals of that Party,, no man can have a? 
 higher opinion than myfelf ; and without having 
 the honour of being perfonally known to the 
 Duke of Portland, it is not poffible to be unac- 
 quainted with his many excellent qualities : but 
 his Grace may fay with great truth, what a 
 very wife man, the late Mr. Pulteney, faid 
 before him, " That the heads of Parties, fbme- 
 " what like the heads of Snakes, are urged on 
 " by the tail/' 
 
 V On Saturday night, Major Scott fent one of 
 
 the firft copies he got, with his compliments, to 
 Mr. Burke, and telling him in the note, that 
 as he had taken the liberty of alluding to cer- 
 tain matters which had pafled fome time ago, 
 he conceived it improper that fuch a work 
 mould be circulated without being commnni- 
 
 . cated at the fame time to Mr. Burke ; and there- 
 fore Major Scott had done himfelf the honour 
 
 to
 
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 to fend him a copy of ir. Both the preface 
 and the note were returned to the perfon whb 
 was defired by Major Scott to fend them, Mr. 
 Burke faying, that he did not want them. On 
 Monday night, Mr. Burke himfelf told Major 
 Scott, that he ought to apologize to him for 
 fending back the note and pamphlet, unlefs 
 the note contained fomething offenlive to him ; 
 which Major Scott allured him it did not. 
 Mr. Burke then defired the pamphlet might 
 be fent, fince he would read it with pleafure, as 
 it contained nothing offenfive to him. Major 
 Scott replied, that he fpoke of the note only, 
 the pamphlet moft certainly did contain a direct 
 contradiction of fomething which Mr. Burke 
 had faid ; who immediately replied, then he 
 wifhed not to fee it, as he did not want to 
 read any thing againft himfelf. Major Scott 
 anfwered, that Mr. Burke would ad as he 
 pleafed ; all that was incumbent upon Major 
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 ScTott to do,- he had done, which was, to gire 
 Mr. Burke an opportunity of feeing, if he 
 chofe^ what had been publicly advanced ; if 
 he wiilied not to fee it, the Major coukl not 
 
 help it % 
 
 
 
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 The facts v which Major Scott alluded to art 
 
 * thefe : The Public will recollect, that when 
 Mr. Burke told' the ftory of Deby Sing in Weft- 
 minfter Hall; which has fmee been fo induftri- 
 oufly circulated throughout Great Britain and 
 throughout Europe, he read extracts from certain 
 documents which he held in his hand. Mr. Haft- 
 ings procured from the India Houfe, an exact copy 
 of all the papers which Mr. Burke had received 
 on this fubject. Major Scott took them to Mar^ 
 gate in the autumn, and after a very ftriet and 
 careful examination of every document, he found, 
 that at the time Mr. Burke fpoke, he had un- 
 doubted evidence by him, that whether Deby 
 
 Sing
 
 Sing was or was not guilty of the horrid acts 
 imputed to him, it was abfolutely impoflible for 
 human ingenuity, or human nature, to fix the 
 ilighteft blame upon Mr. Haftings, or to make 
 him a participator in the acts of Deby Sing. 
 
 But he did not flop here ; he carried dowit 
 with him alfo, documents which had arrived in 
 England after Mr. Burke detailed this ftory. * 
 Froni thefe it appeared upon undoubted evi- 
 dence, that the horrid cruelties ftated by Mr. 
 Burke never were committed at all, as Sir John- 
 Macpherfon could have teftified before Mr. 
 Burke faid a word ; the matter having been 
 moft accurately inveftigated upon oath in- his 
 adminiftration, 
 
 Thefe difcoveries made fo flrong an irnpref- 
 fion upon Major Scott, that he wrote a Letter 
 to Mr. Fox, whom he never believed to have 
 
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 been a party in fuch a proceeding, flatihg the 
 whole at length : but though printed in Septem- 
 ber laft, the communication of it to Mr. Fox 
 and the Public was kept back upon an idea, 
 that pending the proceedings in Weftminfter 
 Hall, any difcuffion of the fubjeft would be 
 improper. If, however, Mr. Burke has any 
 doubts of Major Scott's veracity, or his accu- 
 racy, the Letter to Mr. Fox, which explains 
 the whole, is ready to be produced. 
 
 THE E N 0.
 
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