d Resident, through Major
Gilpin, for redress against his, the said Hastings's, calumnious
accusation, and the false testimony by which it was supported, and did
send the said complaint to the Resident, Middleton, by the said Gilpin,
to be transmitted to him, the said Hastings, and the Council, so early
as the 19th of October, 1782; and that she, the mother of the Nabob,
did afterwards send the same to the Resident, Bristow, asserting their
innocence, and accompanying the same with the copies of letters (the
originals of which they asserted were in their hands) from the chief
witnesses against them, Hannay and Gordon, which letters did directly
overturn the charges or insinuations in the affidavits made by them, and
that, instead of any accusation of an attempt upon them and their
parties by the instigation of the mother of the Nabob, or by her
ministers, they, the said Hannay and Gordon, did attribute their
preservation to them and to their services, and did, with strong
expressions of gratitude both to the mother of the Nabob and to her
ministers, fully acknowledge the same: which remonstrance of the mother
of the Nabob, and the letters of the said Hannay and Gordon, are annexed
to this charge; and the said Hastings is highly criminal for not having
examined into the facts alleged in the said remonstrance.

LXXXI. That the violent proceedings of the said Warren Hastings did tend
to impress all the neighboring princes, some of whom were allied in
blood to the oppressed women of rank aforesaid, with an ill opinion of
the faith, honor, and decency of the British nation; and accordingly, on
the journey aforesaid made by the Nabob from Lucknow to Fyzabad, in
which the said Nabob did restore, in the manner before mentioned, the
confiscated estates of his mother and grandmother, and did afterwards
revoke his said grant, it appears that the said journey did cause a
general alarm (the worst motives obtaining the most easy credit with
regard to any future proceeding, on account of the foregone acts) and
excited great indignation among the ruling persons of the adjacent
country, insomuch that Major Brown, agent to the said Warren Hastings at
the court of the King Shah Allum at Delhi, did write a remonstrance
therein to Mr. Bristow, Resident at Oude, as follows.

"The evening of the 7th, at a conference I had with Mirza Shaffee Khan,
he introduced a subject, respecting the Nabob Vizier, which, however it
may be disagreeable for