"A CHRONOLGICAL list of the Papers and documents contained in the minutes of Evidence adduced upon the Impeachment of Warren Hastings Esq. from Session 1788 to Session 1794 both inclusively - To which is added a list of the witnesses examined during ... 1698-1792

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"A CHRONOLGICAL list of the Papers and documents contained in the minutes of Evidence adduced upon the Impeachment of Warren Hastings Esq. from Session 1788 to Session 1794 both inclusively - To which is added a list of the witnesses examined during ... 1698-1792

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Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818

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Hastings was the first governor general of British India. He began in 1750 as a clerk at the East India Company. In 1761, he was appointed to the Calcutta Council, and in 1769, was made a member of the Madras Council. In 1771, he became governor of Bengal, and in 1774, governor general of India. In 1784, he resigned and returned to England, where he was charged with high crimes and misdemenears. He was impeached in 1787 but, after a long trial, was acquitted in 1795. He was made a privy councilo...