The answer of Warren Hastings Esquire, to the articles exhibited by the knights, citizens, and burgesess [sic] in Parliament assembled É in maintenance of their impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanours supposed to have been by him committed.
London: John Stockdale [ et al.], 1788. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 261; modern red cloth, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. Hastings met Johnson after his return from India in 1765, and thereafter continued to be an irregular correspondent. Hastings, who had spent the better part of his life in India as a civil servant was disingenuously charged with personal corruption in connection with his administration as the first Governor-General of British India. His trial, lasting 145 days extending over a period of better than seven years left him penniless. He was finally acquitted after the charges were "abundantly refuted," and his reputation restored. Item #23565
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