hers of the same
nature, on the 29th of January, 1784, to the said Warren Hastings, he
did not order any relief in consequence thereof, or take any sort of
notice whatsoever of the said intelligence.

LXXV. That the Court of Directors did express strong doubts of the
propriety of seizing the estates aforesaid, and did declare to him, the
said Hastings, "that the only consolation they felt on the occasion is,
that the amount of those jaghires _for which the Company were
guaranties_ is to be paid _through our Resident at the court of the
Vizier_; and it very materially concerns the credit of your Governor on
no account to _suffer such payments to be evaded_." But the said Warren
Hastings did never make the arrangement supposed in the said letter to
be actually made, nor did he cause the Resident to pay them the amount
of their jaghires, or to make any payment to them.

And the said Hastings being expressly ordered by the Court of Directors
to restore to them their estates, in case the charges made upon them
should not be found true, he, the said Hastings, did contumaciously and
cruelly decline any compliance with the said orders until his journey to
Lucknow, in ----, when he did, as he says, "conformably to the orders of
the Court of Directors, and more to the inclination of the Nabob Vizier,
restore to them their jaghires, but with the defalcation, according to
his own account, of _a large portion_ of their respective shares":
pretending, without the least probability, that the said defalcation was
a "voluntary concession on their part." But what he has left to them for
their support, or in what proportion to that which he has taken away, he
has nowhere stated to the Court of Directors, whose faith he has broken,
and whose orders he has thus eluded, whilst he pretended to yield _some_
obedience to them.

LXXVI. That the said Warren Hastings having made a malicious, loose, and
ill-supported charge, backed by certain unsatisfactory affidavits, as a
ground for his seizing on the jaghires and the treasures of the Vizier's
mother, solemnly guarantied to them, the Court of Directors did, in
their letter of the 14th of February, 1783, express themselves as
follows concerning that measure,--"which the Governor-General, [he, the
said Warren Hastings,] in his letter to your board, the 23d of January,
1782, has declared _he strenuously encouraged and supported_: we hope
and trust, for the honor of the British nation, that the mea