Facts relating to the loss and recapture of Calcutta containing affirmations that the sums of money received by Clive and Admiral Watson from Mir Jafar were honourably and deservedly attained.
Scope & Content:
These include affirmations that the sums of money received by Clive and Admiral Watson from Mir Jafar were honourably and deservedly attained and that therefore they should be exempt from the resolution that all such acquisitions belong to the State.
The charges comprise combination for monopolising cotton, monopoly of diamonds, frauds in coinage and exchange, monopoly of the trade in salt, bettel nut and tobacco and peculation of revenue. The notes blame several of these activities for causing the Bengal famine.
It seems likely that this may have been an early hearing, since most of the resolutions are administrative, being requests that the Company should produce various papers.