Markham's successors, at
Benares, unknown to the searching and inquisitive eye of the Commons of
Great Britain. This important evidence was drawn out of Mr. Markham's
pocket, in the presence of your Lordships. It consists of a private
correspondence which he carried on with Mr. Hastings, unknown to the
Council, after Durbege Sing had been appointed Naib, after the new
government had been established, after Mr. Hastings had quitted that
province, and had apparently wholly abandoned it, and when there was no
reason whatever why the correspondence should not be public. This
private correspondence of Mr. Markham's, now produced for the first
time, is full of the bitterest complaints against Durbege Sing. These
clandestine complaints, these underhand means of accomplishing the ruin
of a man, without the knowledge of his true and proper judges, we
produce to your Lordships as a heavy aggravation of our charge, and as a
proof of a wicked conspiracy to destroy the man. For if there was any
danger of his falling into arrears when the heavy accumulated kists came
upon him, the Council ought to have known that danger; they ought to
have known every particular of these complaints: for Mr. Hastings had
then carried into effect his own plans.
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