m him
even his gardens and the tombs of his ancestors, and the funds for
maintaining the same.

IX. That, on complaint of those proceedings, the said Hastings did of
his own authority, and without communicating with his Council, direct
the native collector aforesaid to be removed, and the territory of
Furruckabad to be left to the sole management of its natural prince. But
in a short time the said Hastings, pretending to receive many complaints
purporting that the tribute to the Nabob remained wholly unpaid, and the
agent to the prince of Furruckabad at the Presidency, and afterwards
chief manager to the prince aforesaid, having, as the said Warren
Hastings saith, "had the insolence to propagate a report that the
_interference_ to which his master owed the power he then enjoyed was
_purchased_ through him," he, the said Hastings, did again (but, as
before, without the Council) "withdraw his protection and interference
altogether," on or about the month of August, 1782, and did signify his
resolution, through the Resident, Middleton, to the Nabob Vizier. But
the said Hastings asserts that "the consequence of this his own second
dereliction of the prince of Furruckabad was _an aggravated renewal of
the severities_ exercised against his government, and the reappointment
of a sezauwil, with powers delegated or assumed, to the _utter
extinction_ of the rights of Muzuffer Jung, and actually depriving him
of the means of subsistence." And the said Hastings did receive, on the
16th of February, 1783, from the prince aforesaid, a bitter complaint of
the same to the following tenor.

"The miseries which have fallen upon my country, and the poverty and
distress which have been heaped upon me by the reappointment of the
sezauwil, are such, that a relation of them would, I am convinced,
excite the strongest feelings of compassion in your breast. But it is
impossible to relate them: on one side, my country ruined and
uncultivated to a degree of desolation which exceeds all description; on
the other, my domestic concerns and connections involved _in such a
state of distress and horror, that even the relations, the children, and
the wives of my father are starving in want of daily bread, and are on
the point of flying voluntary exiles from their country and from each
other_."

But although the said Hastings did, on the 16th of February, receive and
admit the justice of the said complaint, and did not deny the urgent
necessity of re