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The Indian Review September 1885

1885

The rivalry of the Bairagis and Goshayens culminated in the last day of the fair in 176o in a pitched battle which terminated in the defeat of the former of whom some 1 800 were slain. [...] We need not repeat here the opening of the quarrel between Hastings and the majority of the Council in which by the Reglation Act of 1773 the Governor-General was but the figure-head except so far as the casting vote was concerned. [...] Such would be unfairly admitting evidence for the prosecution ; unfairly refusing it for the defence ; bullying the counsel of the prisoner and his witnesses throughout the trial ; refusing to allow him in cross-examination to press disagreeable questions which would break down the case of the prsecution ; assuming at each step the guilt of the prisoner himself and the perjury of his witnesses [...] The bond which it was alleged had been forged recites how certain jewels were deposited on account of Nuncomar with the maker of the bond ; how the jewels were plundered at the time of the defeat of the Nabob's army ; and how he the maker of the bond promises to pay 48 021 sicca rupees as the value of the jewels. [...] Justice Chambers whether since the English law of forgery was adapted to the particular commercial and social condition of England and since the same reasons for such a law did not apply to Bengal the clause of the Charter would not allow the indictment Being laid not under the statute which rendered the offence capital but under an earlier statute of the reign of Elizabeth.
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