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Excerpt from Speeches of the Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren Hastings, Vol. 1
It will be convenient for the reader of these speeches to have at hand a short narrative of the series of events which formed the foundation of the charges they refer to. These are connected with only a small part of the great measures which distinguished Mr. Hastings' administration of India. We shall have no occasion to speak of his wars with the Mahrattas, 01 the struggle for possession Of the Carnatic with Hyder Ali. For, although these great efforts Of our then feeble power in the East may have given occa sion for the course of policy arraigned by Mr. Hastings' accusers, they are not among the transactions included in the Articles Of impeachment. The matters referred {o in the actual charges against him, especially in the Articles Opened in the speeches comprised in the present volume, are mainly connected with the early revolutions in the govern ment of Bengal, the history of the province of Oude, and of its dependency, the zamindary of Benares.
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