The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1885 |
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accusation affidavits afterwards alleged appears appointed authority Begums Behader Beg Benares Bengal Calcutta Cazi and Muftis charge Charter Cheyte Sing Chief Justice Chunar Clavering Colonel Commaul O Dien committed conduct conspiracy corrupt Cossijurah crime criminal law Dacca Dewan Nuncomar doubt East India Company English law evidence execution fact forgery Francis give Government Governor Governor-General and Council guilt Hastings and Impey Hastings's Hooghly impeachment Impey's indictment James Mill judges judgment judicial jurisdiction jury Khan law of England letter libel Lord Lucknow Macaulay Maha Rajah Mahomed matter minute Mohun Persaud Monson motive Nabob native offence opinion oppression Orissa paper Parliament Patna Cause Patna Council person petition proceedings prosecution proved Provincial Councils question referred Regulating Act respite Nuncomar revenue salary Sepoys Sir Elijah Impey Sir Gilbert Elliot statute Sudder Diwani Adalat Supreme Court tion Touchet's trial Warren Hastings whole Zemindars
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Page 243 - No Mahratta invasion had ever spread through the province such dismay as this inroad of English lawyers. All the injustice of former oppressors, Asiatic and European, appeared as a blessing when compared with the justice of the Supreme Court.
Page 20 - ... it is amongst other things, enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or may at any time hereafter have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory...
Page 38 - The power which is exerted against me would not have existed in the hands in which it is if I had not helped to keep it there, and it was used against me at the time when I was living, in all appearance, in the utmost confidence of familiarity with the possessor of it.
Page 38 - I suffer beyond mea' sure by the present contest, and my spirits are, at times, so ' depressed as to affect my health. I feel an injury done me by ' a man for whom I have borne a sincere and steady friendship ' during more than thirty years, and to whose support I was, at ' one time, indebted for the safety of my fortune, honour and re' putation, with a ten-fold sensibility.
Page 183 - The high courts have not and may not exercise any original jurisdiction in any matter concerning the revenue, or concerning any act ordered or done in the collection thereof according to the usage and practice of the country or the law for the time being in force.
Page 87 - ... me to death. But by my death, the King's justice will let the actions of no person remain concealed; and now that the hour of death approaches, I shall not for the sake of this world, be regardless of the next, but represent the truth to the gentlemen of the Council. The forgery of the bond of which I am accused never proceeded from me. Many principal people of this country, who...
Page 222 - Government from them. They are at present composed, but we cannot be certain that the calm will last beyond the actual vacation, since the same grounds and materials of disunion subsist, and the revival of it, at a time like this, added to our other troubles, might, if carried to extremities, prove fatal. . . . (Forrest, Selections from the State Papers of . . . Hastings, i. 209.) 57. HASTINGS...
Page 20 - WHEREAS by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, Her Majesty the Queen has jurisdiction within divers foreign countries...
Page 225 - I may be able to convert these courts, " which from ignorance and corruption have hitherto been a " curse, into a blessing, I have resolved to accept it. No pecu" niary satisfaction has been offered or even mentioned to me, " but I do not imagine it is intended that my trouble is to go