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Title: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12)

Author: Edmund Burke

Release Date: April 22, 2005 [EBook #15679]

Language: English

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THE WORKS

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE

IN TWELVE VOLUMES

VOLUME THE THIRD

[Illustration: Burke Coat of Arms.]

LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS, February 28, 1785;
with an Appendix 1

SUBSTANCE OF SPEECH ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES, February 9, 1790 211

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 231

SPEECH

ON THE

MOTION MADE FOR PAPERS

RELATIVE TO THE

DIRECTIONS FOR CHARGING THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S PRIVATE DEBTS TO EUROPEANS
ON THE REVENUES OF THE CARNATIC,

FEBRUARY 28, 1785.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING SEVERAL DOCUMENTS.

[Greek: Entautha ti prattein hechren andra ton Platonos kai
Aristotelous zeloten dogmaton; ara perioran anthropous athlious
tois kleptais ekdidomenous, e kata dunamin antois amunein, oimai,
os ede to kukneion exadousi dia to themises ergasterion ton
toiouton; Emoi men oun aischrhon eivai dokei tous men
chiliarchous, otan leiposi ten taxin, katadikazein ... ten de
hyper athlion anthropon hapoleipein taxin, otan dee pros kleptas
agonizesthai toioutous kai tauta tou thiou summachountos hemin,
oster oun etaxen.]

JULIANI Epist. 17.

ADVERTISEMENT.

That the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enter
fully into the spirit of the transaction on occasion of which it was
delivered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that, among the princes
dependent on this nation in the southern part of India,