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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke Author:Edmund Burke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that paper be still in being, whether it be in the hands of that person, or whether that person can recollect anything distinctly concerning it, — has been guilt... more »y of gross evasions, and of palpable prevarication and deceit, as well as of contumacy and disobedience to the lawful orders of the Court of Directors, and thereby confirmed all the former evidence of his having constantly used the influence of his station for the most scandalous, illegal, and corrupt purposes. IX. —RESIGNATION OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR- GENERAL. ' That Warren Hastings having by his agent, Lauch- lan Macleane, Esquire, on the 10th day of October, in the year 1776, " signified to the Court of Directors his desire to resign his office of Governor-General of Bengal, and requested their nomination of a succes- sor to the vacancy which would be thereby occa- sioned in the Supreme Council," the Court of Direc- tors did thereupon desire the said Lauchlan Macleane " to inform them of the authority under which he acted in a point of such very great importance"; and the said Lauchlan Macleane "signifying there- upon his readiness to give the court every possi- ble satisfaction on that subject, but the powers with which he was intrusted by the papers in his custody being mixed with other matters of a nature extremely confidential, he would submit the same to the inspec- tion of any three of the members of the court," the said Court of Directors empowered the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Richard Becher, Esquire, to inspect the authorities, powers, and directions with which Mr. Macleane was furnished by Mr. Hastings to make the propositions contained in his letter of the 10th October, 1776, and to report their opinion thereon. And the said committee did accordingly, on the 23d of the said month, report, " ...« less