If we do not plant his crimes in those vices which the breast of man is made to abhor, and the spirit of all laws, human and divine, to interdict, we desire no longer to be heard upon this occasion.

Let everything that can be pleaded on the ground of surprise or error, upon those grounds be pleaded with success: we give up the whole of those predicaments.

We urge no crimes that were not crimes of forethought.

We charge him with nothing that he did not commit upon deliberation,--that he did not commit against advice, supplication, and remonstrance,--that he did not commit against the direct command of lawful authority,--that he did not commit after reproof and reprimand, the reproof and reprimand of those who were authorized by the laws to reprove and reprimand him.

The crimes of Mr.
Hastings are crimes not only in themselves, but aggravated by being crimes of contumacy.