77. Mr. CAMPBELLasked the First Commissioner of Works if he has any thing further to report in regard to amending the inscription on the floor of Westminster Hall regarding the trial of Warren Hastings?
§ The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)Mrs. Frewen Lord, through the Royal Empire Society, has offered to defray the cost of a new plate in memory of her husband, who was greatly interested in vindicating the honour of Warren Hastings. Various eminent authorities have been consulted and, as a result, it is suggested that the new inscription should run as follows:
On this spot Warren Hastings stood his trial, 1788–1795. He was acquitted on all the charges.630 In the absence of any serious expression of dissent on the part of Members of either House of Parliament, I now propose to approve of the new inscription.