The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)

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Edmund Burke. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)

NINTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON. THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. June 25, 1783

I.—OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE COMPANY'S AFFAIRS IN INDIA

II.—CONNECTION OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH INDIA

III.—EFFECT OF THE REVENUE INVESTMENT ON THE COMPANY

INTERNAL TRADE OF BENGAL

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RAW SILK

CLOTHS, OR PIECE-GOODS

OPIUM

SALT

SALTPETRE

BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA

ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE APPENDIX. November 18, 1783

APPENDIX

B. No. 1.57

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B. No. 9

ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL: PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN APRIL AND MAY, 1786

I.—ROHILLA WAR

II.—SHAH ALLUM

III.—BENARES

PART I. RIGHTS AND TITLES OF THE RAJAH OF BENARES

PART II. DESIGNS OF MR. HASTINGS TO RUIN THE RAJAH OF BENARES

PART III. EXPULSION OF THE RAJAH OF BENARES

PART IV. SECOND REVOLUTION IN BENARES

PART V. THIRD REVOLUTION IN BENARES

IV.—PRINCESSES OF OUDE

V.—REVOLUTIONS IN FURRUCKABAD

VI.—DESTRUCTION OF THE RAJAH OF SAHLONE

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From the SELECT COMMITTEE [of the House of Commons] appointed to take into consideration the state of the administration of justice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, and to report the same, as it shall appear to them, to the House, with their observations thereupon; and who were instructed to consider how the British possessions in the East Indies may be held and governed with the greatest security and advantage to this country, and by what means the happiness of the native inhabitants may be best promoted.

Your Committee have endeavored to perform this task in plain and popular language, knowing that nothing has alienated the House from inquiries absolutely necessary for the performance of one of the most essential of all its duties so much as the technical language of the Company's records, as the Indian names of persons, of offices, of the tenure and qualities of estates, and of all the varied branches of their intricate revenue. This language is, indeed, of necessary use in the executive departments of the Company's affairs; but it is not necessary to Parliament. A language so foreign from all the ideas and habits of the far greater part of the members of this House has a tendency to disgust them with all sorts of inquiry concerning this subject. They are fatigued into such a despair of ever obtaining a competent knowledge of the transactions in India, that they are easily persuaded to remand them back to that obscurity, mystery, and intrigue out of which they have been forced upon public notice by the calamities arising from their extreme mismanagement. This mismanagement has itself, as your Committee conceive, in a great measure arisen from dark cabals, and secret suggestions to persons in power, without a regular public inquiry into the good or evil tendency of any measure, or into the merit or demerit of any person intrusted with the Company's concerns.

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Your Committee have found a letter from Mr. Sulivan to George Wombwell and William Devaynes, Esquires, Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the Court of Directors, stating that he trusted his applications would have a place in their deliberations when Madras affairs were taken up. Of what nature those applications were your Committee cannot discover, as no traces of them appear on the Company's records,—nor whether any proofs of his ability, even as Persian Translator, which might entitle him to a preference to the many servants in India whose study and opportunities afforded them the means of becoming perfect masters of that language.

On the above letter your Committee find that the Committee of Correspondence proceeded; and on their recommendation the Court of Directors unanimously approved of Mr. Sulivan to be appointed to succeed to the posts of Secretary and Persian Translator.

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