Person

Warren Hastings

Company official, later Governor-General of Bengal; impeached by the House of Commons in 1787 and acquitted by the House of Lords in 1795.

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Impeachment of Warren Hastings impeached by the Commons in 1787; acquitted by the Lords in 1795 Scholarship & press 2

Letter from Fort William to the Court of Directors, 3 November 1772 3 Nov 1772 Scholarship & press 3
A letter of the Governor and Council at Fort William to the Court of Directors, printed by W. W. Hunter under Hastings's name.

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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, vol. 9: Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings (1786) and the opening speech of 15-16 February 1788, Project Gutenberg. Primary record
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
Warren Hastings (essay, Edinburgh Review, October 1841), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1841. Scholarship & press
This law, known by the name of the Regulating Act, provided that the presidency of Bengal should exercise a control over the other possessions of the Company; that the chief of that presidency should be styled Governor-General
Our feeling towards him is not exactly that of the House of Commons which impeached him in 1787
He was then called to the bar, was informed from the woolsack that the Lords had acquitted him, and was solemnly discharged.
The Annals of Rural Bengal, vol. 1 (W. W. Hunter), with the Bengal government's letter of 3 November 1772 in Appendix A, Smith, Elder & Co. (scan on the Internet Archive), 1868. Scholarship & press
BENGAL IN 1772, PORTRAYED BY WARREN HASTINGS. To the Hon’ble the Court of Directors for Affairs of the Hon’ble the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. Dated Fort- William, the 3d November 1772.

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