Classic podium: Bringing a tyrant to account From a speech by Richard Brinsley Sheridan during the trial of the form er governor of India, Warren Hastings, who was accused of tyrannical and arbitrary behaviour (13 June 1788) From: The Independent - London | Date: March 20, 1999 | Copyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THE INQUIRY which now only remains, my Lords, is, whether Mr Hastings is to be answerable for the crimes committed by his agents?

It will not, I trust, be concluded that because Mr Hastings has not marked every passing shade of guilt, and because he has only given the bold outline of cruelty, he is therefore to be acquitted. It is laid down by the law of England, that law which is the perfection of reason, that a person ordering an act to be done by his agent is answerable for that act...

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