Burke

EDMUND, (bürk,) an eminent statesman, orator, and publicist, B. in Dublin, 1730. Entering Parliament in 1765, he especially distinguished himself by his speeches on the great American question, on Catholic emancipation, and economical reform. The affairs of India, the prosecution of Warren Hastings (q. v.), and the events of the French revolution, were the themes which engaged his attention during the following years. His speeches on the opening and conclusion of the impeachment of Hastings-the first occupying 4 and the last9 days-are among the grandest oratorical displays of modern times. His views on the French revolution occasioned a rupture between him and his old colleagues of the Whig party, and, retiring from public life in 1794, he D. three years after. His most celebrated work is the well-known Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756). Burke, in Georgia, an E co., divided from S. Carolina by the Savannah river; area, 7,040 sq. m.;; C. Waynesborough; pop. 17,679.-In N. Carolina, a W. co.; area, 450 sq. m.; C. Morgan town; pop. 9,777. [s. 124]