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Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings

The charges presented to the House of Commons in April and May 1786.

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  1. 1786 Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings
  2. 1786 Edmund Burke authored Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings
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  1. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, vol. 9: Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings (1786) and the opening speech of 15-16 February 1788, Project Gutenberg. Primary record
    ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE, LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL: PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN APRIL AND MAY, 1786
    another scheme for exporting two thousand chests of opium directly to China on the Company's account
    That the importation of opium into China is forbidden by the Chinese government; that the opium, on seizure, is burnt
  2. Warren Hastings (essay, Edinburgh Review, October 1841), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1841. Scholarship & press
    They had been drawn by Burke with great ability, though in a form too much resembling that of a pamphlet.
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