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Excerpt from Substance of a Speech, Delivered in the House of Commons, on Friday, April 5, 1805
I doubt much if the noble person himself, whose administration in India it is the author's object to defend, will thank hiaor admitting all these facts; but, proceeding upon that ad mission, with the exception of the first, I cannot concur in the author's view of them. The destruction of Tippoo (or rather of his power, for his death was a casualty of war) was rendered just and necessary by his notorious violations of the treaty of Seringapatam, and his proved de signs of joining the French against us; in a word, by reiterated proofs of his persevering and incorrigible perfidy: but as to the other facts, I should rather think it would seem to every understanding, that previously to pronouncing them worthy of applause, or even regarding them as benefits, we should determine their moral cha racter, and, for the purpose of enabling us to do so, ascertain the causes which produced them, ' and the views in which they originated.
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