should approve, to his presence; and did repeat the said order in the following peremptory manner:

you must forbid any person of that nation to be "intruded into your presence, without his intro"duction." And he did require his obedience in the following authoritative style: "I shall think "myself obliged to interfere in another manner, "if you neglect it."

XXX.

That he the said Warren Hastings did insult the captive condition of the said Nabob by informing him, in his imperious Instructions aforesaid, that this total, blind, and implicit obedience, in every respect whatsoever, to Sir John Doyley and himself personally, and without any reference to the Board, "was the very conditions of the compliance "of the Governour-General and Council with his "late requisition ;" which requisition was, that he should enjoy the free and uncontrolled management of his own affairs. And though the said captive did offer, as he the said Hastings himself admits, four lacks of his stipend, at that time reduced to sixteen lacks, for the free use of the remainder, yet he did place him the said Nabob in the state of servitude in the said instructions laid down but a very short time after he had assumed and used the said Nabob's independent rights as a ground for refusing to obey the Company's orders; and although

although he has declared, or pretended, on another occasion, which he would have thought similar, that any attempt to limit the household expenses of the Nabob of Oude was an indignity," which no

man living, however mean his rank in life, or dependent his condition in it, would permit to be "exercised by any other, without the want or "forfeiture of every manly principle."

XXXI.

That the said Warren Hastings did order the said stipend (which was to be distributed, in the minutest particular, according to the said Hastings's personal directions) to be paid monthly, not to any officer of the Nabob, but to the said Resident Sir John Doyley. And whereas the Governour-General and Council did, on the appointment of Mahomed Reza Khân, according to their duty instruct him, that he do conform to the orders of the "Company, which direct, that an annual account "of the Nabob's expenses be transmitted, through "the resident at the Durbar, for the inspection of "this Board," the said Hastings, in making his new establishment in favour of his Resident, did wholly omit the said instruction, and did confine the said communication to himself privately. And in fact it does not appear, that any account whatsoever of the disposition of the said large sum, exceeding £.160,000 sterling a year, has been laid В в before

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before the Board, or at least that any such account has been transmitted to the Court of Directors; and it is not fitting, that any British servant of the Company should have the management of any publick money, much less of so great a sum, without a publick well-vouched account of the specifick expenditure thereof.

XXXII.

That the Court of Directors did, on the 17th of May 1766, propose certain rules for regulating the correspondence of the Resident with the Nabob of Bengal, in which they did direct, as a principle for the said regulations, as follows (Paragraph 16th:)

we would have his correspondence to be carried "on with the Select Committee through the channel "of the President; he should keep a diary of all " his transactions. His correspondence with the "natives must be publickly conducted; copies of "all his letters, sent and received, be transmitted 66 monthly to the Presidency, with duplicates and "triplicates to be transmitted home in our general "packet by every ship."

XXXIII.

That the President and Select Committee (Lord Clive being then President) did approve of the whole substantial part of the said regulation (the diary excepted); and the principle, in all matters

of

of account, ought to have been strictly adhered to, whatever limitations may have been given to the office of Resident. Yet he the said Warren Hast, ings, in defiance of the aforesaid good rules, orders, and late precedent in conformity to the same, did not only withhold any order for the purpose, but, in order to carry on the business of the said Durbar in a clandestine manner for his own purposes, did, as aforesaid, exclude all English from an intercourse with the Nabob, who might carry complaints or representations to the Board, or the Court of Directors, of his condition or the conduct of the Resident; and did further, to defeat all possible publicity, insinuate to him to give the preference to verbal communication above letters, in the words following of the 9th article of his Instructions to the Nabob; although I desire to receive your "letters frequently, yet, as many matters will occur, "which cannot be so easily explained by letters as

by conversation, I desire, that you will on such "occasions give your orders to him respecting "such points as you may desire to have imparted

to me; and I, postponing every other concern, "will give an immediate, and the most satisfactory

reply concerning them." Accordingly, no relation whatsoever has been received by the Court of Directors of the said Nabob's affairs; nor any account of the money monthly paid, except from publick fame, which reports, that his affairs are in

great disorder, his servants unpaid, and many of them dismissed, and all the Mussulmen dependant on his family in a state of indigence.

XVIII. THE MOGUL DELIVERED UP TO THE MAHRATTAS.

I.

THAT Shah Allum, the prince, commonly called the Great Mogul, or, by eminence, The King, is, or lately was, in the possession of the ancient capital of Hindostan; and though without any considerable territory, and without a revenue sufficient to maintain a moderate state, he is still much respected and considered; and the custody of his person is eagerly sought by many of the princes in India, on account of the use to be made of his title and authority; and it was for the interest of the EastIndia Company, that, while on one hand no wars shall be entered into in support of his pretensions, on the other no steps should be taken, which may tend to deliver him into the hands of any of the powerful states of that country; but that he should be treated with friendship, good faith, and respectful attention,

II. That