THE

HISTORY

OF

BRITISH INDIA,

BY JAMES MILL, Esq.

Hoc autem pressè et distinctè excutiamus sermone
quodam activo et masculo, nusquam digrediendo, nil
amplificando.
BACON, De Augm. Scient. Lib. ii.

SECOND EDITION,

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1820.

CONTENTS.

BOOK VI.

FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR THE

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, IN 1784, TO THE TERMINATION OF THE

WAR WITH THE MAHRATTAS, IN 1805.

CHAPTER I.

Administration of Mr. Macpherson-State of the Govern-

ment in India, internal and external-Board of Control pays,

without Inquiry, the Debts of the Nabob of Arcot-Orders

the Assignment of the Carnatic Revenues to be given up-

Absorbs the Power of the Directors-Lord Cornwallis ap-

pointed Governor-General-Commencement of the Proceed-

ings in Parliament relative to the Impeachment of Mr. Hast-

ings-The best Mode of Proceeding rejected by the House of

Commons-Articles of Charge against Mr. Hastings-Three

Bills to amend the East India Act-Proceedings in Parlia-

ment relative to the Impeachment of Mr. Hastings-Im-

peachment voted-Proceedings in Parliament tending to the

Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey-Motion for Impeachment

negatived-Mr. Pitt's declaratory Act....

Arrangement about Troops and Money with the Nabob of

Oude The Guntoor Circar obtained from the Nizam, and a

new Arrangement made with that Prince-Aspect which that

Arrangement bore to Tippoo Saib-Dispute of Tippoo with

the Rajah of Travancore-Tippoo attacks the Lines of Tra-

vancore-The English prepare for War-Form an Alliance

with the Nizam, and with the Mahrattas-Plan of the Cam-

paign-General Meadows takes possession of Coimbatore,

and establishes a Chain of Depots to the Bottom of the

Gujelhutty Pass-Tippoo descends by the Gujelhutty Pass-

And compels the English General to return for the Defence

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