ents aforesaid.

That the said Warren Hastings, being absent, on account of ill health,
from the Presidency of Calcutta, at a place called Nia Serai, about
forty miles distant therefrom, did carry on a secret correspondence with
the Resident at Benares, and, under color that the instalments for the
new rent or tribute were in arrear, did of his own authority make, in
about one year, a second revolution in the government of the territory
aforesaid, and did order and direct that Durbege Sing aforesaid, father
of the Rajah, and administrator of his authority, should be deprived of
his office and of his lands, and thrown into prison, and did threaten
him with death: although he, the said Warren Hastings, had, at the time
of the making his new arrangement, declared himself sensible that the
rent aforesaid might require abatement; although he was well apprised
that the administrator had been for two months of his administration in
a weak and languid state of body, and wholly incapable of attending to
the business of the collections; though a considerable drought had
prevailed in the said province, and did consequently affect the
regularity and produce of the collections; and though he had other
sufficient reason to believe that the said administrator had not himself
received from the collectors of government and the cultivators of the
soil the rent in arrear: yet he, the said Warren Hastings, without any
known process, or recording any answer, defence, plea, exculpation, or
apology from the party, or recording any other grounds of rigor against
him, except the following paragraph of a letter from the Resident, not
only gave the order as aforesaid, but did afterwards, without laying any
other or better ground before the Council-General, persuade them to, and
did procure from them, a confirmation of the aforesaid cruel and
illegal proceedings, the correspondence concerning which had not been
before communicated: he pleading his illness for not communicating the
same, though that illness did not prevent him from carrying on
correspondence concerning the deposition of the said administrator, and
other important affairs in various places.

That in the letter to the Council requiring the confirmation of his acts
aforesaid the said Warren Hastings did not only propose the confinement
of the said administrator at Benares, although by his imprisonment he
must have been in a great measure disabled from recovering the balances
due to h