ke the wife and son of the said
administrator, contrary to the sentiments and the law of Nature, the
instruments of his oppressions: directing, "that, if they" (the mother
and son aforesaid) "could be _induced_ to yield _the appearance of a
cheerful acquiescence_ in the new arrangement, and to adopt it as _a
measure formed with their participation_, it would be better than that
it should be done by a declared act of compulsion; but that at all
events it ought to be done."

That, in consequence of the pressing declarations aforesaid, the said
Warren Hastings did on his special recommendation appoint, in opposition
to the wishes and desires of the Rajah and his mother, another person to
the administration of his affairs, called Jagher Deo Seo.

That, the Company having sent express orders for the sending the
Resident by them before appointed to Benares, the said Warren Hastings
did strongly oppose himself to the same, and did throw upon the person
appointed by the Company (Francis Fowke, Esquire) several strong, but
unspecified, reflections and aspersions, contrary to the duty he owed to
the Company, and to the justice he owed to all its servants.

That the said Resident, being appointed by the votes of the rest of the
Council, in obedience to the reiterated orders of the Company, and in
despite of the opposition of the said Hastings, did proceed to Benares,
and, on the representation of the parties, and the submission of the
accounts of the aforesaid Durbege Sing to an arbitrator, did find him,
the said Durbege Sing, in debt to the Company for a sum not considerable
enough to justify the severe treatment of the said Durbege Sing: his
wife and son complaining, at or about the same time, that the balances
due to him from the _aumils_, or sub-collectors, had been received by
the new administrator, and carried to his own credit, in prejudice and
wrong to the said Durbege Sing; which representation, the only one that
has been transmitted on the part of the said sufferers, has not been
contradicted.

That it appears that the said Durbege Sing did afterwards go to Calcutta
for the redress of his grievances, and that it does not appear that the
same were redressed, or even his complaints heard, but he received two
peremptory orders from the Supreme Council to leave the said city and to
return to Benares; that, on his return to Benares, and being there met
by Warren Hastings aforesaid, he, the said Warren Hastings, although he