GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



The trial was fair, and the guilt fully proved, and conviAion 

 and execution the confequence. A crime too horrible for my 

 belief was attempted to be afcribed to Mr. Hajmgs, that of 

 joining with the chief juftice to murder the criminal with the 

 fword of juftice. He fufFered by the cord in Auguji 1775. The 

 account of the execution was moft pathetically drawn up by the 

 flieriff who attended, and who evidently was no friend to Mr. 

 Hajlings *. He moft affededly defcribes his wonderful calmnefs 

 and refignation; fome afcribe it to his being afllired by his 

 friends in power that he had nothing to fear, and that he was 

 certain of being reprieved, even at the foot of the gallows ; but 

 after cheating him, as the Devil did the Santon Barfifa in the 

 TurkiPj tales, they fpit in his face and difappeared. Mr. Broome 

 thinks Niindcotnar fliould have been refpited, becaufe forgery 

 is not a capital offence by the laws of Hindoojlan. In England 

 made fo merely in fupport of commerce ; but adds Mr. Broome, 

 there are other reafons why the governor general might (ought) 

 to have refpited execution. Nundcomar was the bittereft enemy 

 which Mr. Hajlings had, and united againft him with his moft 

 malignant enemies. Elevated charadters like the wife of C<^r 

 lliould not undergo even fufpicion — greatnefs of mind — and com- 

 mon delicacy fliould have made the man to whom the power of 

 mercy had been delegated, to have ufed his heavenly prerogative 

 in favor of the wretched criminal ! It is but juftice to fay, that 

 his vaft fortunes were reftored to his fon. He had Mx.^-Xwq lacks 

 of roupees in money, and about the fame in jewels and rich goods t; 



« Preferved in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1780, p. 555. 

 f Hiftory of Bengal, Mr, Jonathan Scott, ii. p. 459. 



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