Vendetta: Edmund Burke V Laurence Sulivan

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Edmund Burke V Laurence Sulivan

Because of the interest of a mainline publisher, there will be a delay in bringing this book to print. Thank you for your patience.

The messages the book contains are valuable: throwing new light on what happened in the last few years leading up to the Impeachment of Warren Hastings; demonstrating how embedded in extraneous East India Company affairs was the whole arraignment against him.

The book also brings to wider notice part of the illustrious career of Laurence Sulivan, leading, hopefully to a wish among readers for greater knowledge of what he achieved and what he stood for. In particular to make today's generation aware of his desire for non-involvement in land ownership in India; and of his non-racial approach to the EIC's affairs in the sub-continent. All that he worked for in this respect was destroyed by Clive's assumption of the Diwani after Sulivan was defeated by Clive and his associates in the Court of Directors at India House in Leadenhall Street,London.

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