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[ Horace Walpole.-E D.]
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[ “Selections from the State Papers preserved in the Foreign Department of the Government of India, 1772-1785,” Edited by G. W. Forrest, VOL i. P, 178.]
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[ “Warren Hastings,” by Sir Alfred Lyall, p. 54.]
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[ “Selections from State Papers,” vol. i. p. xlviii.]
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[ In his defence at the bar of the House of Commons, (Feb. 4th, 1788) Sir Elijah Impey attempted to justify his conduct by precedent, but the single precedent on which he relied does not prove much in his favour. A Hindoo, named Radachund Metre, was condemned to death for forgery in 1765, but was pardoned on this very ground, that capital punishment for such a crime was unheard of in India.]