Life of Warren Hastings
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Excerpt from Life of Warren Hastings: First Governor-General of India Reviewing on the 25th February, 1892, the remarkable work by Sir John Strachey, just then published, entitled "Hastings and the Rohilla War," the Times concluded its highly appreciative remarks with an assertion, which, though it may be true, is but little complimentary to the sound judgment and love of justice of the English people. "To say," writes the reviewer, "that he [Sir John Strachey] has vindicated Warren Hastings against the invectives of Burke and the other managers of the famous Impeachment, against the calumnies and inaccuracies of Mill, against the involuntary misrepresentations of Macaulay, is to say little. He has re-written an important chapter of Indian history, and exemplified the true spirit in which that history should be written. But it is all in vain, we fear. History has little chance against rhetoric, and Indian history has never been made interesting to English readers except by rhetoric. In spite of all that Sir James Stephen did some years ago, and all that Sir John Strachey has now done, Macaulay will still hold the field, and his picture of Warren Hastings will still be accepted as authentic by that body of readers who care less for truth than for effect." Language such as this, proceeding from such a source, ought not, even though we may acknowledge its truth, to deter others from attempting to complete the vindication of the character and conduct of a man who rendered services to his country so striking that the results have been felt, and are felt still, in every corner of the Empire; and who was repaid by calumnies which, though disproved in his lifetime, have still been made, by the rhetoric to which the Times refers, to cling to his memory. Warren Hastings redressed in India the ineptitudes, and worse, of which, during the same period, the British House of Commons was guilty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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