Vendetta: Burke V Sulivan

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Further notification of the imminent launch of this important study.

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To ensure the widest readership, especially for students, the purchase price is being kept as low as possible.

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Find out how easily created, how dangerous and life-demeaning was this vendetta between two extremely powerful men; one that contributed to the Impeachment before the world, of a fellow human being.

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The greed and scrabble for money demonstrated has the smack of the hidden world of today: of vicious politics and dog-eat-dog wealth creators.

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That human needs and feelings never change is demonstrated here. In each era, especially among the elite where we find real power, major and minor grudge-filled quarrels occur; fuelled with rancour, ill-will, greed, panic, hypocrisy and lies.

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The Edmund Burke – Laurence Sulivan Vendetta

Introduction
 

Herewith advance notification of a new analysis of the run up to the trial for Impeachment of Warren Hastings, ex-Governor-General of India that began in 1788 at the instigation of Burke and would drag on for seven years until 1795, when Hastings was acquitted.

This booklet (due for publication) brings out the full significance of what began as a point of vexation between these two very powerful men, which took a sinister and dangerous turn before becoming something much more important.

The events portrayed revolve around a relationship – initially friendly – that evolved into bitter enmity, between two of Ireland’s finest men, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Laurence Sulivan (1713-1786). What transpired would have a major bearing on one of the most serious events in British public life during the 1770s and 1780s, and is still debated today.

                                                            

Burke was deeply involved in the politics of the time, and through his orations and political writings has achieved a pinnacle of fame accorded to few others.

Nevertheless, during the years they competed on earth, Laurence Sulivan, described as the finest mind ever to guide the fortunes of the East India Company, was of equal, if not greater standing in the eyes of contemporaries….

               Edmund Burke

                                                             

                                    

I have already written a biography

of this astonishing man – it also

refers to the enmity between him
and Burke that developed, but not
in the depth given here.

                                                                                                                         Laurence Sulivan