Transactions in India from the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Three: Containing a History of the British Interests in Indostan During a Period of Near T
Transactions in India from the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Three: Containing a History of the British Interests in Indostan During a Period of Near T
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 edition. Excerpt: ...to convift the Governor-general of the moft abandoned proftitution of the authority under which he rilled the higheft fituation in the patronage of the Company; the extreme unrelenting rigour with which the procefs vas carried on, in direft violation of all thofe regards and decencies which the remoteft ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 edition. Excerpt: ...to convift the Governor-general of the moft abandoned proftitution of the authority under which he rilled the higheft fituation in the patronage of the Company; the extreme unrelenting rigour with which the procefs vas carried on, in direft violation of all thofe regards and decencies which the remoteft antiquity, and uniyerfal ufage, had rendered facred; the virulent eagernefs of Mr. Hat-tings, and his partizans, to expofe, to blacken, to criminate, and even to execrate and vilify the cha-racter of an individual, thushaplefs and degraded; and the grofs profufion of foul intemperate language which (lamps every apology which has yet been oflered for thqfe proceedings, are prcmifcs on which few competent and impartial judges would be apt to conclude, that in this political trial no fpecics of fympathy fubfifted between the Governor-general general and the Supreme Court. Jufticc, the ttable fccurity of property and life, when impar-_..: _... tiaJly In a minute of the Majority, whilft this important caufc was pending before the Supreme Court, dated the nth of April, 17,55, it is accounted for in the manner following: " Maha Rajah Nuncomar, whom the Governor calls " mifcreant, we found had heen, but a very little time be-" fore, hi-s bofom friend, consulted Oh all occafions, and V fupported by him a'aiiift die united protcjt of Mcffrs. " Graham, Lawrel, and Dacres, who were clofelyconnefl-" ed with Mahomed Reza Cawn, although the Governor " knew him to have been, as he now fays, guilty of a for-" gery. We have reafon to fufpect that the intention was " to make him Banyan to General Clavering, to furround " the General and us with the Governor's creatures, and ' to keep us totally unacquainted with the real flate of the " government. By this and other...
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