hat a convenient time should be given to
answer, proportioned to the greatness of the offence alleged, and the
heavy penalties which attend it; and when he did arrogate to himself a
right both to charge and to judge in his own person, he ought to have
allowed the Rajah full opportunity for conferring with his ministers,
his doctors of law, and his accountants, on the facts charged, and on
the criminality inferred in the said accusation of disloyalty and
disaffection, or offences of that quality.

VII. That the said Rajah did, under the pressure of the disadvantages
aforesaid, deliver in, upon the very evening of the day of the charge, a
full, complete, and specific answer to the two articles therein
specified; and did allege and offer proof that the whole of the
extraordinary demands of the said Hastings had been actually long before
paid and discharged; and did state a proper defence, with regard to the
cavalry, even supposing him bound (when he was not bound) to furnish
any. And the said Rajah did make a direct denial of the truth, of the
two _general_ articles, and did explain himself on the same in as
satisfactory a manner and as fully as their nature could permit,
offering to enter into immediate trial of the points in issue between
him and the said Hastings, in the remarkable words following. "My
enemies, with a view to my ruin, have made false representations to you.
Now that, _happily for me_, you have yourself arrived at this place, you
will be able to ascertain all the circumstances: first, relative to the
horse; secondly, to my people going to Calcutta; and thirdly, the dates
of the receipts of the particular sums above mentioned. You will then
know whether I have amused you with a false representation, or made a
just report to you." And in the said answer the said Rajah complained,
but in the most modest terms, of an injury to him of the most dangerous
and criminal nature in transactions of such moment, namely, his not
receiving any answer to his letters and petitions, and concluded in the
following words. "I have never swerved in the smallest degree from my
duty to you. It remains with you to decide on all these matters. I am in
every case your slave. What is just I have represented to you. May your
prosperity increase!"

VIII. That the said Warren Hastings was bound by the essential
principles of natural justice to attend to the claim made by the Rajah
to a fair and impartial trial and inquiry into the ma