A Second Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Esq.: On the Subject of the Evidence Referred to in the Second Report of the Select Committee of ... of Justice in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar,

Excerpt from A Second Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, On the Subject of the Evidence Referred to in the Second Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed to Enquire Into the State of Justice in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orressa

If, as they affirm, the government of Bengal had a tendency to the depopulation of this country, how as it came about, that the famine and government together hath not yet quite extirpated the people and deftroyed the reven ues. Mr. Hafiings had been but a little more then two years in the government of Bengal,'when the majority arri ved, fuppofing him to have been the whole time employed.

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