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Impeachment of Warren Hastings.

Catalogue reference: IOR/H/231

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IOR/H/231
Title
Impeachment of Warren Hastings.
Date
c 1788
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(1) p. i, List of Contents. (2) pp. 1-329, Papers prepared by Wallis and Froward, Solicitors to the Managers, of the Impeachment against Warren Hastings, including Nos. (3)-(8) below. (3) pp. 1-20, Pecuniary loss caused by Hastings' mismanagement of the Company's Affairs. (4) p. 21, Amount of Charges of the Bengal Government under their respective heads in 1776/7 to 1783/4 and 1788/9, showing the increase of expenditure during Hastings' Administration. (5) pp. 27-61, Extracts from the Lords' and Gurneys' Minutes to show that the Managers did not offer Evidence litigiously. (6) pp. 63-125, General view of the business of the Trial from its commencement, Proceedings upon litigated Evidence and Observations. (7) pp. 129-233, Appendix A, Complaints of the Managers in not knowing the grounds of the Resolutions of the Court, Chancellor's Remarks on the admissibility of certain Proceedings after Hastings quitted the Council, Managers acquitted of delay, Chancellor's dicta on the Records of the India House being Evidence, Chancellor's dicta upon the Appendix. (8) pp. 237-329, Appendix B, Rejected Evidence, viz. Examination of Nandkumar after Hastings quitted the Council, Papers transmitted by C. Goring, Munny Begam's letter to Goring, Accounts of the Nizamat, C. Goring's letter to Bengal Council 29th June 1775, Character of Raja Kyalleram and his arrears to the Company and Enormities committed by Raja Devy Singh in Rungpur.

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English
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