The Bengal Journal alarmed the East India Company authorities with its reporting of
revolutionary events in France and caused outrage when it published an erroneouus report of
Lord Cornwallis having been killed during a campaign against
Tipu Sultan. Duane blamed a source he identified as an agent of the French Royalist French Government in Exile. Duane was sued for libel against the exile government, and the
Governor-General of BengalJohn Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, shut down the paper.[7][8] Duane was subsequently dragged by his hair through the streets of Calcutta to a debtors' prison.[9] In 1794, after managing a second newspaper, The Indian World,[10] which reported on radical disaffection in the junior ranks of EIC army, Shore had Duane deported back to England.[11]