vote,in destroying a tyranny that exists to the disgrace of this nation, and the destruction of so large a part of the human species.

EXTRACT FROM MR. BURKE'S SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS.

Among the victims to this magnificent plan of uni versal plunder, worthy of the heroic avarice of the projectors, you have all heard (and he has made himself to be well remembered) of an Indian Chief called Hyder Ali Khan. This man possessed the western, as the company under the name of the nabob of Arcot does the eastern, division of the Carnatic. It was among the leading measures in the design of this cabal (according to their own emphatic language) to extirpate this Hyder Ali. They declared the nabob of Arcot to be his sovereign, and himself to be a reb2 el, and publicly invested their instrument with the sovereignty of the kingdom of Mysore. But their vic tim was not of the passive kind. They were soon obliged to conclude a treaty of peace and close alli ance with this rébel at the gates of Madras. Both before and since that treaty, every principle of policy pointed out this power as a natural alliance; and on his part, it was courted by every sort of amicable office. But the cabinet council of English creditors would not suffer their nabob of Arcot to sign the treaty, nor even to give to a prince, at least his equal, the ordinary ti tles of respect and courtesy. From that time forward, a continued plot was carried on within the divan, black and white, of the nabob of Arcot, for the destruction of Hyder Ali. As to the outward members of the double, or rather treble government of Madras, which had signed the treaty, they were always pres vented by some overruling influence (which they do not describe, but which cannot be misunderstood.) from performing what justice and interest combined so evidently to enforce.

When at length, Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, of

whom no treaty and no signature could bind, and who, were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by, these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection. He became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatsoever of his dreadful resolution. Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob. of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon; it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.-. Then ensued a scene of wo, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tem pest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine,

The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity that private charity could do; but it was a people in beggary; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and luxury in their most plenteous days had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest fasts, silent, patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is; but I find myself unable to manage it with decorum; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that on better thoughts, I find it more adviseable to throw a pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conceptions.

For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed as they did the Carnatic, for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march, they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four footed beast of any description whatever. One dead, uniform, silence reigned over the whole region, With the inconsiderable exceptions of the narrow vicinage of some few forts, I wish to be understood as speaking literally. I mean to produce to you more than three witnesses, above all exception, who will support this assertion

in its full extent. That hurricane of war pass ed through every part of the central provinces of the Carnatic. Six or seven districts to the north and to the south (and these not wholly untouched) escaped the general ravage.

The Carnatic is a country, not much inferior in extent to England. Figure to yourself, Mr. Speaker, the land in whose representation chair you sit; figure to yourself the form and fashion of your sweet and cheerful country from Thames to Trent, north and south, and from the Irish to the German sea, east and. west, emptied and embowelled (may God avert the omen of our crimes!) by so accomplished a desolation. Extend your imagination a little further, and then suppose your ministers taking a survey of this scene of waste and desolation; what would be your thoughts if you should be informed, that they were computing how much had been the amount of the excises, how much the customs, how much the land and malt tax, in order that they should charge (take it in the most favorable light) for public service, upon the relics of the satiated vengeance of relentless enemies, the whole of what England had yielded in her most exu, berant seasons of peace and abundance? What would you call it? To call it tyranny, sublimed into madness, would be too faint an image; yet this very madness is the principle upon which the ministers at your right hand have proceeded in their estimate of the revenues of the Carnatic when they were providing not sup ply for the establishments of its protection, but res wards for the authors of its ruin..

CONCLUSION OF MR. BURKE'S SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF HASTINGS.

I charge Warren Hastings in the name of the Commons of England, here assembled, with high crimes and misdemeanors!-I charge him with fraud, abuse, treachery, and robbery! I charge him with cruelties unheard of, and devastations almost without

name! I charge him with having scarcely left in India, what will prove satisfaction for his guilt.

And now I address myself to this assembly, with the most perfect reliance on the justice of this high court. Amongst you, I see a venerable and religious band, whose province and whose duty it is, to venerate that government which is established in piety and mercy. To them, what must have been the principles of Mr. Hastings.

Amongst you, I see the judges of England, the de liverers of law founded on equal justice. To them, what must have been the usurpations, the tyranny, the extortions of Warren Hastings.

Amongst you, I desery an illustrious and virtuous train of nobles, whose forefathers have fought and died for the constitution! men who do even less honor to their children, than those children do to them, who are here assembled to guard that constitution which they have received. From them, what mustthe violater of all forms and constitutions deserve.

With one voice they will encourage this impeachment, which I here solemnly maintain...

I impeach, therefore, Warren Hastings, in the name of our holy religion, which he has disgraced. I impeach him in the name of the English constitution, which he has violated and broken. I impeach him in the name of Indian millions, whom he has sacrificed to injustice. I impeach him in the name and by. the best rights of human nature, which he has stabbed to the heart. And I conjure this high and sacred: court to let not these pleadings be heard in vain!

EXTRACT FROM MR. CURRAN'S SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF ROWAN.

This paper, gentlemen, insists upon the necessity of emancipating the Catholics of Ireland, and that is charged as a part of the libel. If they had kept this prosecution impending for another year, how much would remain for a jury to decide upon, I should be at