The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
"And the said Warren Hastings further says, that he was informed
that Mirza Jungli, in the said article also mentioned, did leave
his native country in distress, and did go to Mirza Shuffee Khân,
in the said article also mentioned; and the said Warren Hastings
likewise admits he was informed that the said Mirza Jungli did
afterwards leave the said Mirza Shuffee Khân, and repair to the
camp of Mahdajee Sindia, with a view of obtaining some
establishment for himself and followers.
"And the said Warren Hastings further says, that in certain letters
written by David Anderson, Esquire, and John Bristow, Esquire, it
was represented that the said Mirza Jungli did apply to the said
Bristow, through the said Anderson, then on an embassy in the camp
of the said Sindia, and that in consequence thereof the said
Bristow did, amongst other things, apply to the said Nabob Vizier
for a certain allowance to be made for the said Mirza, and for the
regular payment thereof, and that a certain allowance was
accordingly settled by the said Vizier on the said Mirza; and the
said Warren Hastings says, that information of the above
transactions was transmitted to the Board of Council, and that a
letter from the said Vizier was received on the 23d of August,
1782, containing certain representations of the distresses of
himself and his family; and he admits that no order was made by
him, the said Warren Hastings, for the provision of any of the said
family, or for the return of the said Mirza; but the said Warren
Hastings denies that he was guilty of any cruelty, inhumanity, or
corruption, or of any misconduct whatsoever, in the matters
aforesaid."
Continuation of the charge:--
"That some time in or about the month of December, 1783, the Nabob
Bahadur, another of the brothers of the said Nabob of Oude, did
represent to the said Bristow, that he, the said Nabob Bahadur, had
not received a farthing of his allowance for the current year, and
was without food; and being wounded by an assassin, who had also
murdered his aunt in the very capital of Oude, the said Nabob
Bahadur had not a daum to pay the surgeon, who attended him for the
love of God alone. That at or about the period of this said
representation the said Bristow was recalled, and the said Warren
Hastings proceeded up to Lucknow, but did not inquire into the said
representations transmitted by the said Bristow to Calcutta, nor
did order any relief."
Mr. Hastings's answer to the part of the charge last read:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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