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Excerpt from A Vindication of the Character and Administration of Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart;, Governor of Madras in 1778-1780: From the Misrepresentations of Colonel Wilks, Mr. Mill, and Other Historians of British India: Including an Examination of Mr. Hastings' Relations With Sir Thomas Rumbold
The Vindication contained in this volume has a remarkable and pathetic history.
The late Sir Thomas Rumbold, who died in 1791, was the father of a large family. His youngest daughter, the author of this vindication, died, a year ago last January, at an advanced age, leaving behind her the substance of the following pages. What was needed was, that they should be arranged and edited; and circumstances left the editor no Option but to undertake the work, although he did so with the greatest reluctance, because of the severe pressure upon him of other duties, and because he was destitute of the preliminary knowledge as to the details of the history of British India in the last century, which the task of editing Miss Rumbold's papers demanded.
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