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1781. Sessions. [Saturday] June 9th

as Justices of the Peace.
Sir Robert Chambers, Gave the Charge to the Grand Jury.
The Charge related Principally to the Crime of Treason, and to the Case of Mr. Lewis D’Costa, an Inhabitant of Calcutta, who had been committed to Prison for Treason, by a Warrant sign’d Warren Hastings, having been, as it is said, charged, on Depositions taken by Mr. Hastings, with holding a Treasonable Correspondence, with the King’s Enemies the French at Mauritius.
Mr. D’Costa’s name did not appear in the Calendar, He having been admitted to Bail by me, the Governor-General and Council having [assented] by Mr. George Wroughton, the Company’s Attorney to Mr. D’Costa’s being discharged on Bail.