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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797

"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)"

21,964 12 8.
(Errors excepted.)
JOHN ANNIS,
_Auditor of Indian Accounts._
EAST INDIA HOUSE, 5th June, 1783.


FOOTNOTES:
[57] As the Appendixes originally printed with the foregoing Reports,
and which consist chiefly of official documents, would have swelled this
volume to an enormous size, it has been thought proper to omit them,
with the exception of the first nine numbers of the Appendix B. to the
Eleventh Report, the insertion of which has been judged necessary for
the elucidation of the subject-matter of that Report.
[58] {Received 19th May,
{Cancelled 30th July, 1774.


ARTICLES OF CHARGE
OF
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
AGAINST
WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE
LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL:
PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
IN APRIL AND MAY, 1786.

ARTICLES I.-VI.


ARTICLES OF CHARGE
AGAINST
WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ.,
LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL.

I.--ROHILLA WAR.
That the Court of Directors of the East India Company, from a just sense
of the danger and odium incident to the extension of their conquests in
the East Indies, and from an experience of the disorders and corrupt
practices which intrigues and negotiations to bring about revolutions
among the country powers had produced, did positively and repeatedly
direct their servants in Bengal not to engage in any offensive war
whatsoever.


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