r being so employed in the province of Bengal,--by which the said
Hastings did either in loose and general terms convey a false imputation
upon the conduct of the Company's servants employed in the collection of
the revenues of Bengal, or he was guilty of a criminal neglect of duty
in not bringing to punishment the particular persons whose evil
practices had given rise to such a general imputation on British
subjects and servants of the Company as to render them unfit for service
in other places.

That the said Warren Hastings, having in the course of three years made
three complete revolutions in the state of Benares, by expelling, in the
first instance, the lawful and rightful governor of the same, under
whose care and superintendence a large and certain revenue, suitable to
the abilities of the country, and consistent with its prosperity, was
paid with the greatest punctuality, and by afterwards displacing two
effective governors or administrators of the province, appointed in
succession by himself, and, in consequence of the said appointments and
violent and arbitrary removals, the said province "being left in effect
without a government," except in one city only, and having, after all,
settled no more than a temporary arrangement, is guilty of an high crime
and misdemeanor in the destruction of the country aforesaid.

IV.--PRINCESSES OF OUDE.

I. That the reigning Nabob of Oude, commonly called Asoph ul Dowlah,
(son and successor to Sujah ul Dowlah,) by taking into or continuing in
his pay certain bodies of regular British troops, and by having
afterwards admitted the British Resident at his court into the
management of all his affairs, foreign and domestic, and particularly
into the administration of his finances, did gradually become in
substance and effect, as well as in general repute and estimation, a
dependant on, or vassal of, the East India Company, and was, and is, so
much under the control of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal,
that, in the opinion of all the native powers, the English name and
character is concerned in every act of his government.

II. That Warren Hastings, Esquire, contrary to law and to his duty, and
in disobedience to the orders of the East India Company, arrogating to
himself the nomination of the Resident at the court of Oude, as his
particular agent and representative, and rejecting the Resident
appointed by the Company, and obtruding upon them a person of his own
cho