had reason to be well assured that the said Durbege Sing was in
possession of small or no substance, did again cruelly and inhumanly,
and without any legal authority, order the said Durbege Sing to be
strictly imprisoned; and the said Durbege Sing, in consequence of the
vexations, hardships, and oppressions aforesaid, died in a short time
after, insolvent, but whether in prison or not does not appear.

PART V.

THIRD REVOLUTION IN BENARES.

That the said Warren Hastings, having, in the manner before recited,
divested Durbege Sing of the administration of the province of Benares,
did, of his own arbitrary will and pleasure, and against the
remonstrances of the Rajah and his mother, (in whose name and in whose
right the said Durbege Sing, father of the one, and husband of the
other, had administered the affairs of the government,) appoint a person
called Jagher Deo Seo to administer the same.

That the new administrator, warned by the severe example made of his
predecessor, is represented by the said Warren Hastings as having made
it his "avowed principle" (as it might be expected it should be) "that
the sum fixed for the revenue _must_ be collected." And he did, upon the
principle aforesaid, and by the means suggested by a principle of that
sort, accordingly levy from the country, and did regularly discharge to
the British Resident at Benares, by monthly payments, the sums imposed
by the said Warren Hastings, as it is asserted by the Resident, Fowke;
but the said Warren Hastings did assert that his annual collections did
not amount to more than Lac 37,37,600, or thereabouts, which he says is
much short of the revenues of the province, and is by about twenty-four
thousand pounds short of his agreement.

That it further appears, that, notwithstanding the new administrator
aforesaid was appointed two months, or thereabouts, after the beginning
of the Fusseli year, that is to say, about the middle of November, 1782,
and the former administrator had collected a certain portion of the
revenues of that year, amounting to 17,000_l._ and upwards, yet he, the
said new administrator, upon the unjust and destructive principle
aforesaid, suggested by the cruel and violent proceedings of the said
Warren Hastings towards his predecessor, did levy on the province,
within the said year, the whole amount of the revenues to be collected,
in addition to the sum collected by his predecessor aforesaid.

That, on account of a great d