The Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India
The Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India
George Francois Grand
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141 I read the letter with astonishment ! I felt what ground I had to stand upon. I felt how untenable their's was. I am told, early in November, by the Governor, that the reason of my recall from the seat of my administration arose from charges preferred against me ; and, in the month of March ensuing, I am apprised by order of the same authority that a com- mittee had been nominated in January, to meet, sit at Patna, and to proceed to trial and judgment, to which place I had liberty to repair..., and appear person- ally, or, by native delegate, before this strange consti- tuted board, to relate what they (this identical tribunal) might have collected, against the Judge and Magistrate of a city, who had in these functions acted for four years over an extended population of above three hundred thousand people, comprehending Hindus, Mahomedans, Sics, * and Europeans, the latter of whom thought themselves out of the reach of any police regulation, until I convinced them to the contrary, by those which I established for the maintenance of good order, and to which they subsequently readily sub- scribed.
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