in the Nabob's government, and to complete
the ruin which they thought was impending on ours. If it is the Nabob's
desire to forget and to forgive their past offence, I have no objection
to his allowing them, in pension, the nominal amount of their jaghires;
but if he shall _ever offer_ to restore their jaghires to them, or to
give them any property in land, after the warning which they have given
him by the dangerous abuse which they formerly made of his indulgence,
you must remonstrate in the strongest terms against it; _you must not
permit such an event to take place_, until this government shall have
received information of it, and shall have had time to interpose its
influence for the prevention of it." And the said Warren Hastings, who
did in the manner aforesaid positively refuse to admit the Nabob to
restore to his mother and grandmother any part of their landed estates
for their maintenance, did well know that the revenues of the said Nabob
were at that time so far applied to the demands of the Company, (by him,
the said Warren Hastings, aggravated beyond the whole of what they did
produce,) or were otherwise so far applied to the purposes of several of
the servants of the Company, and others, the dependants of him, the said
Hastings, that none of the pensions or allowances, assigned by the said
Nabob in lieu of the estates confiscated, were paid, or were likely to
be discharged, with that punctuality which was necessary even to the
scanty subsistence of the persons to which they were in name and
appearance applied. For,

LIII. That, so early as the 6th March, 1782, Captain Leonard Jaques, who
commanded the forces on duty for the purpose of distressing the several
women in the palaces at Fyzabad, did complain to the Resident, Richard
Johnson, in the following words. "The women belonging to the Khord
Mohul (or lesser palace) complain of their being in want of every
necessary of life, and are at last driven to that desperation that they
at night get on the top of the zenanah, make a great disturbance, and
last night not only alarmed the sentinels posted in the garden, but
threw dirt at them; they threaten to throw themselves from the walls of
the zenanah, and also to break out of it. Humanity obliges me to
acquaint you of this matter, and to request to know if you have any
directions to give me concerning it. I also beg leave to acquaint you I
sent for Letafit Ali Khan, the cojah who has the charge of them, and wh