অদ্যপি জরুল গ্রামে তাহাদের বাসস্থানের চিহ্ন বর্তমান আছে, এবং মহাতপ নামে একটি পুষ্করিণী তাহদের পূর্ব বাসের পরিচয় দিতেছে!
উদ্ধৃত করিতে হয়। হেস্টিংসের বিচারে এই বিষয় সম্বন্ধে অন্যান্য মনীষীর মত Debbrette's History of the Trial of Warren Hastings, Minutes of Evidence of Hastings’ Trial zoo so fos রূপে লিপিবদ্ধ আছে। তাহার পর মিল বলিতেছেন —
“No transaction, perhaps, of this whole administration more deeply tainted the reputation of Hastings, than the tragedy of Nuncomar. At the moment when he stood forth as the accuser of the Governor-General, he was charged with a crime, alleged to have been committed five years before; tried, and executed; a proceeding which could not fail to generate the suspicion of guilt, and of an inability to encounter the weight of his testimony, in the man whose power to have prevented, or to have stopped (if he did not cause) the prosecution; it is not easy to deny.
The severest censures were very generally passed upon this trial and execution; and 1t was afterwards exhibited as matter of impeachment against both Mr. Hastings, and the judge who presided in the tribunal.” (Mill's History of British India, Vol. III, p. 640). §§on উইলবারফোর্সেরও ঐরূপ মত। মেকলে বলিতেছেন —
“On a sudden, Calcutta was astounded by the news that Nuncomar had been taken up on a charge of felony, committed, and thrown into the common gaol. The crime imputed to him was that six years before he had forged a bond. The ostensible prosecutor was a native. But it was then, and still is, the opinion of every body, idiots and biographers excepted, that Hastings was the real mover in the business.”
Of Impey's conduct it is impossible to speak too severely. We have already said that, in our opinion, he acted unjustly to respite Nuncomar. No rational man can doubt that he took this course in order to gratify the Governor-General. If we had ever had any doubts on that point, they would have been dispelled by a letter which Mr. Gleig has published. Hastings, three or four years later, described Impey as the man “to whose support he was at one time indebted for the safety of his fortune, honour, and reputation.” These strong words can refer only to the case of Nuncomar; and they must mean that Impey hanged Nuncomar in order to support Hastings.
