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Impeachment of Warren Hastings

The House of Commons impeached Hastings in 1787; the House of Lords tried him and acquitted him in 1795.

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Edmund Burke 1786–1795 Scholarship & press 1
Macaulay writes that Burke began the operations; he also drew the charges.

Warren Hastings impeached by the Commons in 1787; acquitted by the Lords in 1795 Scholarship & press 1
House of Commons impeached him in 1787 Scholarship & press 1
House of Lords tried the impeachment and acquitted him in 1795 Scholarship & press 1

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Warren Hastings (essay, Edinburgh Review, October 1841), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1841. Scholarship & press
Burke began his operations by applying for Papers.
Our feeling towards him is not exactly that of the House of Commons which impeached him in 1787
He was then called to the bar, was informed from the woolsack that the Lords had acquitted him, and was solemnly discharged.
Only twenty-nine Peers voted. Of these only six found Hastings guilty on the charges relating to Cheyte Sing and to the Begums. On other charges, the majority in his favour was still greater. On some he was unanimously absolved.
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

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