lives and fortunes of
men to entertain, much more, publicly to profess as a rule of action, as
the same hath a direct tendency to make the new and powerful government
of this kingdom in India dreadful to the natives and odious to the
world. But if the said Warren Hastings did mean thereby indirectly to
insinuate that oppressions had been actually exercised under the British
authority, he was bound to inquire into these oppressions, and to
animadvert on the person guilty of the same, if proof thereof could be
had,--and the more, as the authority was given by _himself_, and the
person exercising it was by himself also named. And the said Warren
Hastings did on another occasion assert that "whether they were well or
ill-founded he never had an opportunity to ascertain." But it is not
true that the said Hastings did or could want such opportunity: the fact
being, that the said Warren Hastings did never cause any inquiry to be
made into any supposed abuses during the said Residency, but did give a
pension of fifteen hundred pounds a year to the said late Resident as a
compensation to him for an injury received, and did afterwards promote
the Resident, as a faithful servant of the Company, (and nothing appears
to show him otherwise,) to a judicial office of high trust,--thereby
taking away all credit from any grounds asserted or insinuated by the
said Hastings for delivering the said Nabob of Furruckabad to the hand
of a known enemy and oppressor, who had already, contrary to repeated
treaties, deprived him of a large part of his territories.

VII. That, on the said Warren Hastings's representation of the
transaction aforesaid to the Court of Directors, they did heavily and
justly censure the said Warren Hastings for the same, and did convey
their censure to him, recommending relief to the suffering prince, but
without any order for sending a new Resident: being, as it may be
supposed, prevented from taking that step by the faith of the treaty
made at Chunar.

VIII. That all the oppressions foreseen by him, the said Warren
Hastings, when he made the article aforesaid in the treaty of Chunar,
did actually happen: for, immediately on the removal of the British
Resident, the country of Furruckabad was subjected to the discretion of
a certain native manager of revenue, called Almas Ali Khan, who did
impoverish and oppress the country and insult the prince, and did
deprive him of all subsistence from his own estates,--taking fro