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Copies from the India Gazette for
Saturday January 10th 1784
Printed by George Gordon.

Sir William Jones’s Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, 4th December 1783.
[Published by the Grand Jury.]
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
It might perhaps be sufficient, if my address to you this day were confined to some short remarks on those offences, of which the Prisoners named in the calendar are accused; but such is the particularity of my own situation that I cannot help feeling an inclination to take a wider range. Six Years have elapsed, since the seat, which I have now the honour to fill, became vacant; and, in that interval, so many important events have happened in India, and so many interesting debates have been held in the parliament of Britain, on the power and objects of this judicature, that I may naturally be expected to touch at least,
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