laimed scandal of the Nabob Vizier, which _will
not add to the credit of our government_, or remain in his dominions,
but not under his authority, to add to his vexations and the disorders
of the country by continual intrigues and seditions. Enough already
exists to affect his peace and the quiet of his people. If we cannot
heal, let us not inflame the wounds _which have been inflicted_."--"If
the Begums think themselves aggrieved to such a degree as to justify
them in _an appeal to a foreign jurisdiction_, to appeal to it against a
man standing in the relation of son and grandson to them, _to appeal to
the justice of those who have been the abettors and instruments of their
imputed wrongs_, let us at least permit them to be the judges of their
own feelings, and prefer their complaints before we offer to redress
them. They will not need to be prompted. I hope I shall not depart from
the simplicity of official language in saying, the majesty of justice
ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or
invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs and
the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishments before
trial, and even before accusation."

LXXVIII. That the said Warren Hastings, in attempting to pass an act of
indemnity for his own crimes, and of oblivion for the sufferings of
others, supposing the latter _almost obliterated_ by time, did not only
mock and insult over the sufferings of the allies of the Company, but
did show an indecent contempt of the understandings of the Court of
Directors: because his violent attempts on the property and liberty of
the mother and grandmother of the ally aforesaid had not their first
commencement much above two years before that time, and had been
continued, without abatement or relaxation on his part, to the very time
of his minute; the Nabob having, by the instigation of his, the said
Hastings's, instrument, Hyder Beg Khan, not two months before the date
of the Consultation, been obliged a second time to break his faith with
relation to the estates of his mother, in the manner hereinbefore
recited. And the said Hastings did not and could not conceive that the
clearing the mother could revive any animosity between her and her son,
by whom she never had been accused. The said Hastings was also sensible
that the restoration of her landed estates, recommended by the Court of
Directors, could not produce any ill effect on the mind of the