esident (then being a public minister representing the British
government at the court of the said Rajah, and as such bound by the law
of nations to respect the prince at whose court he was Resident, and not
to attempt anything against his person or state, and who ought not,
therefore, to have been chosen by the said Hastings, and compelled to
serve in that business) that he should on the next morning arrest the
said prince in his palace, and keep him in his custody until further
orders; which said order being conceived in the most peremptory terms,
the Rajah was put under arrest, with a guard of about thirty orderly
sepoys, with their swords drawn; and the particulars thereof were
reported to him as follows.

"HONORABLE SIR,--I this morning, in obedience to your orders of last
night, proceeded with a few of my orderlies, accompanied by Lieutenant
Stalker, to Shewalla Ghaut, the present residence of Rajah Cheyt Sing,
and acquainted him it was your pleasure he should consider himself in
arrest; that he should order his people to behave in a quiet and orderly
manner, for that any attempt _to rescue him would be attended with his
own destruction. The Rajah submitted quietly to the arrest_, and assured
me, that, whatever were your orders, he was ready implicitly to obey; he
hoped that you would allow him a _subsistence_, but as for _his
zemindary, his forts, and his treasure, he was ready to lay them at your
feet, and his life, if required_. He expressed himself much hurt at the
ignominy which he affirmed must be the consequence of his confinement,
and entreated me to return to you with the foregoing submission, hoping
that you would make allowances for his youth and inexperience, and in
consideration of his father's name release him from his confinement, as
soon as he should prove the sincerity of his offers, and himself
deserving of your compassion and forgiveness."

X. That a further order was given, that every servant of the Rajah's
should be disarmed, and a certain number only left to attend him under a
strict watch. In a quarter of an hour after this conversation, two
companies of grenadier sepoys were sent to the Rajah's palace by the
said Hastings; and the Rajah, being dismayed by this unexpected and
unprovoked treatment, wrote two short letters or petitions to the said
Hastings, under the greatest apparent dejection at the outrage and
dishonor he had suffered in the eyes of his subjects, (all imprisonment
of perso