Nature, State, and Condition of the East India Company, and of the British affairs in the East Indies. Reports Nos. 1 to 5 of Select Committee of House of Commons (Col. Burgoyne, Chairman)
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Subjects of Enquiry: (1) Charters, Acts of parliament, Grants and Treaties; (2) Commissions etc, to company’s servants; Covenants; (3) State of affairs in India and territorial acquisitions from establishment of Company; (4) Disputes with foreign Companies since 1765; (5) Home affairs, accounts, ...
Petitions from John Touchet and John Irving, Agents for British subjects residing in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa; from Warren Hastings, Philip Francis, and Edward Wheler, Councillors for the Government of Fort William in Bengal, and from the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies. Report from Committee of the House of Commons. (General Smith, Chairman)
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Subject of Enquiry: Proceedings and claims of the Supreme Court of Judicature so far as those proceedings and claims are alleged to affect the exercise of the powers of legal government, the peace and security of the provinces, the administration of civil and criminal justice, the collection of t...
The “Bengal Narrative” as referred to the Committee of the House of Commons
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Contents: Correspondence, &c. regarding: Differences of opinion in the Supreme Council on political affairs (1774); Rohilla War; letters from General Clavering, Colonel Monson and Mr Francis (30 November 1774, &c.); Warren Hastings’ appeal to the Court (1774); Mr Barwell’s Minute on the s...