Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Against Warren Hastings, Esquire, Late Governor General of BengalJ. Debrett, 1786 - 455 Seiten |
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adminiſtration affert aforesaid alſo anſwer appointed Begum Benares Bengal Bristow Britiſh cauſe charge Chunar Clavering Company Company's confiderable conſent conſequence Council courſe Court of Directors declared defire diſtreſſes Dowla Engliſh Eſq eſtabliſhment eſtates expence expreſs faid Hastings faid Nabob faid Rajah faid Warren Hastings falſe fame Farruckabad firſt fome Fort William fuch Fyzabad Governor Haftings Haſtings honour Hyder Beg increaſe inſtance inſtructions intereſt Jaghires justice Khân letter Lucknow meaſure ment Middleton Minifter moſt Nabob of Oude neceffity neceſſary obſerved oppreffion perſon poffeffion poſitively preſent pretended Prince propoſe province purpoſe Rajah Ranna reaſon received Refident refuſal repreſented Reſident reſolution reſpect revenues Rohillas rupees ſaid ſame ſay ſecurity ſent ſervants ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhew ſhould Sir Eyre Coote Sir John Clavering ſituation ſome ſtate ſtation ſterling ſubject ſuch ſum ſupport ſuppoſed thereof theſe thoſe tion tranfmitted tranſaction treaty troops uſe Vizier whoſe zemindars
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Seite 247 - ... the farmer who holds his farm for one year only, having no interest in the next, takes what he can with the hand of rigour, which, even in the execution of legal claims, is often equivalent to violence. He is under the necessity of being rigid, and even cruel ; for what is left in arrear after the expiration of his power is at best a doubtful debt, if ever recoverable. He will be tempted to exceed the bounds of right, and to augment his income by irregular exactions, and by...
Seite 154 - Farruckabad is become almoft an en" tire -wqfte, without cultivation or inhabitants; that *' the capital, which, but a very fhort time ago, " was diftinguifhed as one of the moft populous " and opulent commercial cities in Hindoftan, at *' prefent exhibits nothing but fcenes of the moft " wre tcfad poverty, defoliation and mifery; and that ** the nabob himfelf, though in the poffeffion of a " tract of country which, with only common care, '* is...
Seite 96 - That if the measure proposed was intended to procure the payment of the balance due to the company, he could better and more expeditiously effect that object, by taking from his mother the treasures of his father^ which he asserted to...