their conditional agreement for fifty-five lacs, your
coming here upon such an agency can only be _loss of time_ in completing
the recovery of the balance of 6,55,000, for which your regiment was
sent to Fyzabad. I must therefore desire you will leave _no efforts,
gentle or harsh_, unattempted to complete this, before you move from
Fyzabad; and I am very anxious that this should be as soon as possible,
_as I want to employ your regiment upon other emergent service, now
suffering by every delay_."

XLVIII. That the goods aforesaid were sent to Lucknow, and disposed of
in a manner unknown; and the harsh and oppressive measures aforesaid
being still continued, the Begum did, about the middle of October,
1782, cause to be represented to the said Middleton as follows. "That
her situation was truly pitiable,--her estate sequestered, her treasury
ransacked, her cojahs prisoners, and her servants deserting daily from
want of subsistence. That she had solicited the loan of money, to
satisfy the demands of the Company, from every person that she imagined
would or could assist her with any; but that the opulent would not
listen to her adversity. She had hoped that the wardrobe sent to Lucknow
might have sold for at least one half of the Company's demands on her;
but even jewelry and goods, she finds from woful experience, lose their
value the moment it is known they come from her. That she had now
solicited the loan of cash from Almas Ali Khan, and if she failed in
that application, she had no hopes of ever borrowing a sum equal to the
demand":[73]--an hope not likely to be realized, as the said Almas Ali
was then engaged for a sum of money to be raised for the Company's use
on the security of their confiscated lands, the restoration of which
could form the only apparent security for a loan.

XLIX. That this remonstrance produced no effect on the mind of the
aforesaid Resident,--who, being about this time removed from his
Residency, did, in a letter to his successor, Mr. Bristow, dated 23d
October, 1782, in effect recommend a perseverance in the cruel and
oppressive restraints aforesaid as a certain means of recovering the
remainder of the extorted bond, and that the lands with which the
princesses aforesaid had been endowed should not be restored to them.

L. That the said Warren Hastings was duly apprised of all the material
circumstances in the unjust proceedings aforesaid, but did nothing to
stop the course they were in, or