Excerpt from A Short Narrative of the Circumstances Attending the Late Trials in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras, for Forgery, Perjury, and Conspiracy to Cheat: With Some Comments on the Unjustifiable Allusions Made to Them in the Recent Official Pamphlet in Defence of the Madras Government A few years ago, when it was publiclyfiknewn that an ad justrnentof the debts of the late nabob of Carnaticwas about to take place, a very con siderable amormt of nabob's bonds appeared in the market at Madras, and many of them were daily hawked about at much lower prices than paper of the same denomination was sold for, be fore it was known that any arrangement of this debt was to take place. Itwas then reasonably suspected, and it has since been proved, that the durbar servants were principally contemed in the fabrication of these spurious bendsythey having ergoyed a greatenfiacilitypf giving w hat to their claims, by connecting them witli the real transactions, in the records to' which they had free access. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.