THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE
IN TWELVE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE TENTH
London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII
CONTENTS OF VOL. X.
SPEECHES
IN
THE IMPEACHMENT
OF
WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE
LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL.
SPEECH IN OPENING.
(CONTINUED.)
FEBRUARY, 1788.
SPEECH
IN
OPENING THE IMPEACHMENT.
THIRD DAY: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1788.
My Lords,—The gentlemen who are appointedby the Commons to manage this prosecution,have directed me to inform your Lordships, that theyhave very carefully and attentively weighed the magnitudeof the subject which they bring before youwith the time which the nature and circumstances ofaffairs allow for their conducting it.
My Lords, on that comparison, they are very apprehensive,that, if I should go very largely into a preliminaryexplanation of the several matters in charge,it might be to the prejudice of an early trial of thesu