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.
and Burke that developed, but not
in the depth given here.
Laurence Sulivan
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