A NARRATIVE OF THE LATE TRANSACTIONS AT BENARES. BY WARREN HASTINGS, Esq. の米 CALCUTTA: THE BANGABASI OFFICE. 38-2 BHAWANI CHARAN DUTT'S STREET. 1905. Price Rs. Two only. A NARRATIVE OF THE LATE TRANSACTIONS AT BENARES. BY WARREN HASTINGS, Esq. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. DEBRETT, (SUCCESSOR TO MR. ALMON) OPPOSITE BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY. 1782. INTRODUCTION. ONE of the most stirring events of the Indian history in the eighteenth century, is the one in connection with Chait Sing, the Raja of Benares. The historic Hall of Westminster resounded with the narration of this event when the famous Irish orator, Edmund Burke, raised his thundering voice on behalf of the people of India and impeached the great administrator, Warren Hastings, before the august Assembly of the Lords. Every reader of Indian history is acquainted with the fact, how the financial embarrassment of the government of Warren Hastings compelled him now and then to have recourse to questionable means of raising money, and how the indirect refusal of Chait Sing to submit to one of those unjust demands, ended most disastrously to the Raja. The following pages furnish the reader with an account of those occurrences, as given by Mr. Hastings to Mr. Wheler and the Council of Fort William, in explanation of his conduct. In these pages the writer, Mr. Hastings, professes "to deliver all the past transactions and occurrences with the strictest and most faithful regard to truth," and tries to justify the extraordinary measures he adopted in relation to the Raja, on the ground that the Raja had been dilatory, evasive, shuffling and unwilling to pay the subsidy |