Show WHITE V WHITEWASHING ASHING THE BESMIRCHED Lord C Curzon made a speech before The Worshipful Wor Wor- shi fill f l Company of Merchant Taylors the other othe day and in- in inthe t the te e course course course of it it want wanted d the names of of Warren v arren H Hastings sting and Lord Clive Cliv redeemed d and anc given honorable stations in history He said Did ever a man live lire who had so noble a monument nt as J Lord ord Clive His monument is is an empire of the he greatest achievement t of oi civil government and civil administration administration ad ad- ministration which the history of the world can show But Clive returned from India to be persecuted insulted reviled Warren Warren- Hastin Hastings s who rendered if possible still greater reater services services ser ser- vices to En England lan 1 than Clive Cliv returned home honie and the best intellects intellects in- in devoted themselves f Sr years to compass his ruin Why should they not be bc restored to favor favori r True ue Sh Sheridan and the great Burke intimated that there was was' bribery bad faith peculation avarice insolence inso- inso insolence lence lence ence ferocity treachery cruelty and much mo more e py practiced by the ge gentlemen tl men but maybe those two old- old fashioned advocates were mistaken Anyway they were no worse in the arraignment than w was Falstaff's arraignment of Prince 1 e Hal but Falstaff was reconciled recon recon- reG recon reconciled in- in and took the Prince back to his ar arms s and md his confidence so soon as he found that the Prince had haa the stol stolen n money England has never made restitution to India for lite stealing She must have thought ought it all right as she he kept the money How can she clear herself in her own own- estimation until Hastings and Lord Lor Clive are vindicated |