Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-09-23
HASTINGS OF DAYLEsFoRD

natn.tagh might have been in the columns OF this
OF aat week when announced lie Sale VI
Of the Warren Hastings IL he commencement o. The
last century, estate had been ulenaed b" me astnes
family AMI purchased ty London merchant alter The
lance i seventy years Warren Hastings repnrchased H.
and built upon il the present mansion To obtain pOsses
sion this property had been the aim Of his life Throughout
the course his Indian career II s said that The desire OF
resto Jag hOn0rs Of family which had suni INTO deca
encc ami poverty and Of renscsns il IN his o%n per son
with splendor worthy of the name. was strong with hni
from frat As child ffieniiess and hepessas lad
at Westminster school, with better prospect cure him
Than SCHOLARS destny-as orlon "utct't 10 an Indian
counting hpu"0 The successful statesman and founder
OF empire the thought was never absent from his mind
iurLI ms waking muncnrs. To be the OF Au.
runp2rbc The sovereign ruler OF country rospendent
win all goiies Of fable and romance, WAS something
To be Hastings u DayiesuTi still more tie adhered
TO his determination through lie with that lenaclly VI pnr
pose which strongest feature il his character The
ruler Of nda became lii sngs vi DaYleeota although the
le han shnfn Of the splendors viii: which he had
fundly hoped invest ill., Certainly if there
man might have looked Tor substantial mark Ut
acknowledgment IRON his Sovereign and MS country Tor
services performed. HAT man was Warren Hastings More
Than hall II century had elapsed since The otaurica ability
OF Eng narshalIcd in Westminster hall hnr s
most fiery periods the head of The Indian statesman VINO
who been devoted 10 destruction, before trial but
uemnr broke The verdict poserily taken
nts al passion and Indignation have long aacc
disappeared, und that verdict is not unfavorabc t" the
cuaud The result Is not thai Warren Hastings
scrupunus not maj he would have hesitalcd any
deed which maht DC necessary 10 the Indian Empire
which had been Gy the siionr OF Give aud retained by
his own VIZ nus cuuscls: but least find that he was
idozrd by the people India aud that his still
held 10 religious vrneration among thethat his admins
rbUn emineny snrcessnl-- lie placed in
postum novel that IL scarcely possible for hun
pecilr character Of the dangers with which he had
contend that 81, his bltleesl enemies could
home him the charges which he stood afragn
rdha ,". although he had administered the government
of l.:a Is yrIrs. We do not, Gi course asEUme in
rursury This nicely 10 weigh the amount n
blame by Hastings in such Transaction OF
the Bahlns execution thai he or blood
hi IL
Iraon however HuY ier as u the policy justice
particular There can be no doubt now days that
Hastings did deserve The long persecution which eno
tered the course oil his declining years The bunder OF
agent the meuosily OF an uraor--the jealousy Of MIN
III. ndrrison OF King robbed him OF The
which most larry ms due-or the last Hastings of
Da lesuri wou have borne hat in his estimation
least might have been higher title. To u.s. who examine
the u,a tier perhaps dispa ssonatrIy serms more
splendid fate that he should gone down The grave
with other h"nus Than those which poseritY will pay
his simplr nac-lo his strong heart to his "se head
. the u. III hiS grrat deeds
IL ~ ,r,cr, Strange chance which brings no again
brl"ic Of OF The founders OF our In
dian Emalrr-now HAT II has attained such gigantic pro
puons and has Just gwen Use 10 questions OF such para
inpu The interests oi humanity How shot
n period has actually ella psei Warren Hastings took
upon himself The government oi India Some five Years
ntrrrgnum had passed away since Give had quilted The
post Whar was British India before that rnel What was
when Hastings landed upon It's shores. young with
better prospect hefUe him Than that uf subordinate
mercantile position the worlds end II is not hundred
yeas since Suraah Dnwlih ncaIccraed Mr.. Howell
and companions the Black Hole Calcutta the
battle u plassey fought lew months after HAL event
There a sill remarkable TACT, which may show how
may be eec.fd during the life OF single person The
pictures and effects Dayesiod brought sale under
the Of hr late MIS- Hasiings-oi that Madame uhuH
Who The companion Of Haslingss fortunes throughout
his ceckered Indian The elegant Marlunne OF Ma
caully'S EssayAnd she died abunt The
magnitude and importance oil The which have
place in India since they JsembdrEcd together upon
soil unus Cypress the memory II Is scarcely possible
hiok that person have lived through Them all 70
speak OF Hyde Alt . day5 10 almost as though one
shouts speak OF Genseric OF Aitiisi and yet s Has
,ings then comparatively young Not long afterwards