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Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892 [7r] (13/40)
The record is made up of 1 file (20 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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treated Warren Hastings as a criminal; and yet it is
now admitted the records show Hastings was right through-
out, and that Clive founded an Empire without which
Great Britain would have dwindled into something resembling
an insular Holland.
YesJ the history of our Empire is the record of vast
results achieved by comparatively very small means. It
is the monument of men of great courage, ability and re
source, who have hazarded their reputations and their
lives in the service of their country. It may be true
that meanwhile rulers at the centre have been sitting
still with folded hands, but that does not imply that
the Empire was pulling the Kingdom out of Europe; it
means rather that the Kingdom, being pushed out of Europe
by superior forces, has found salvation in the Empire,
No doubt, the confusion in thought may be partly attribut-
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Typed copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given in support of Edward Brodie Hoare's campaign for re-election as MP for Hampstead with annotations and corrections in ink by Pelly.
Pelly had been asked by Hoare to give a talk, which he believed was to be a 'parlour talk' to a few friends, until he discovered it was being advertised in the Times and other leading newspapers of the time.
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The file has printed foliation in thetop right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, with the exception of folio 1 where the foliation number has been inserted in pencil.
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- Mss Eur F126/25
- Title
- Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892
- Pages
- 1r:20v
- Author
- Pelly, Sir Lewis
- Copyright
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