_Question._--Whether the paper delivered by Sir Elijah Impey, on the 7th of July, 1775, in the Supreme Court, to the Secretary of the Supreme Council, in order to be transmitted to the Council as the resolution of the Court in respect to the claim made for Roy Rada Churn, on account of his being vakeel of the Nabob Mobarek ul Dowlah,--and which paper was the subject of the deliberation of the Council on the 31st July, 1775, Mr. Hastings being then present, and was by them transmitted to the Court of Directors, as a ground for such instructions from the Court of Directors as the occasion might seem to require,--may be admitted as evidence of the actual state and situation of the Nabob with reference to the English government? 1789, July 2.--Pa. 1001. * * * * * _Answer._--The Lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer delivered the unanimous opinion of the Judges upon the said question, in the affirmative,--and gave his reasons. 1789, July 7.--Pa. 1030. _Sixth._ _Question._--Whether it be or be not competent to the Managers for the Commons to give evidence upon the charge in the sixth article, to prove that the rent, at which the defendant, Warren Hastings, let the lands mentioned in the said sixth article of charge to Kelleram, fell into arrear and was deficient,--and whether, if proof were offered, that the rent fell in arrear immediately after the letting, the evidence would in that case be competent? 1790, April 22.--Pa. 364. * * * * * _Answer._--The lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer delivered the unanimous opinion of the Judges upon the said question,--"That it is not competent to the Managers for the Commons to give evidence upon the charge in the sixth article, to prove that the rent, at which the defendant, Warren Hastings, let the lands mentioned in the said sixth article of charge to Kelleram, fell into arrear and was deficient,"--and gave his reasons. 1790, April 27.--Pa. 388. _Seventh._ _Question._--Whether it be competent for the Managers for the Commons to put the following question to the witness, upon the sixth article of charge, viz.: "What impression the letting of the lands to Kelleram and Cullian Sing made on the minds of the inhabitants of that country"? 1790, April 27.--Pa. 391. * * * * * _Answer._--The Lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer delivered the unanimous opinion of the Judges upon the said question,--"That it is not competent to the Managers for the Commons to put the following question to the witness, upon the sixth article of charge, viz.: What impression, the letting of the lands to Kelleram and Cullian Sing made on the minds of the inhabitants of that country,"--and gave his reasons. 1790, April 29.--Pa. 413. _Eighth._