And _direct_ moral or philanthropic apostleship was not his function.
Macaulay, in a famous passage of dazzling lustre and fine historic colour, describes Burke's holy rage against the misdeeds of Hastings as due to his sensibility.

But sensibility to what?
Not merely to those common impressions of human suffering which kindle the flame of ordinary philanthropy, always attractive, often so beneficent, but often so capricious and so laden with secret detriment.

This was no part of Burke's type.

For is it enough to say that Burke had what is the distinctive mark of the true statesman, a passion for good, wise, and orderly government.

He had that in the strongest degree.