Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning als Taschenbuch von Unknown Author - Taschenbuch

Excerpt from Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning: President of the Board of Controul, in the House of Commons, on Thursday, March 4, 1819, in Proposing Votes of Thanks to the Marquis of Hastings, and the British Army in India

Members of this House, any apprehension should be entertained that I wished the policy of the measures adopted in India to be discussed on this occasion, with the view of conveying in the Vote of Thanks an implicit general approbation. I assure you, Sir, that I have no such object in view. The political character of Lord Hastings's late measures forms no part of the Question upon which I shall ask the House to decide. My object in the present Motion is to acknowledge with due praise and gratitude the splendid services of the Indian army. I was, indeed, anxious to have the Papers upon the table, because some statement of the political relations of the different parties in the late hostilities - in the way, not of argument but of narrative - seems necessary, to render intelligible the origin and operations of the war.

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