after several advantages gained
over the Rajah and his adherents, and expelling him from the country,
did represent the utter impossibility of bringing it to a permanent
settlement "merely by forcible methods; as in any of his [the Rajah's]
incursions it would not be necessary to bring even a force with him, as
the zemindars [landed proprietors and freeholders] are much attached to
the Rajah, whom they consider as their hereditary prince, and never fail
to assist him, and that his rebellion against government is not looked
on as a crime": and Mr. Lumsdaine declared it "as his clear opinion,
that the allowing the said Rajah a pension suitable to his rank and
influence in the country would be the most certain mode of obtaining a
permanent peace,"--alleging, among other cogent reasons, "that the
expense of the force necessary to be employed to subdue the country
might be spared, and employed elsewhere, and that the people would
return to their villages with their cattle and effects, and of course
government have some security for the revenue, whereas at present they
have none." And the representation containing that prudent and temperate
counsel, given by a military man of undoubted information and perfect
experience in the local circumstances of the country, was transmitted by
the Resident, Bristow, to the said Warren Hastings, who did wilfully and
criminally omit to order any relief to the said Rajah in conformity to
the general sense and wishes of the inhabitants, a compliance with whose
so reasonable an expectation his duty in restoring the tranquillity of
the country and in retrieving the honor of the English government did
absolutely require; but instead of making such provision, a price was
set upon his head, and several bodies of British troops being employed
to pursue him, after many skirmishes and much bloodshed and mutual waste
of the country, the said Rajah, honored and respected by the natives,
was hunted down, and at length killed in a thicket.

FOOTNOTES:

[59] See Hastings's Letter.

[60] Sic orig.

[61] 26th Dec., 1781.

[62] 13th Jan., 1782.

[63] 18th Jan., 1782.

[64] Letter from Mr. Middleton, 2d Feb., 1782.

[65] Lucknow, 22d July, 1782.

[66] Major Gilpin's Letter, 15th June, 1782.

[67] Mr. Johnson's letter, 9th July, 1782.

[68] Ibid., 4th July, 1782.

[69] Major Gilpin's Letter, 6th July, 1782.

[70] Mr. Johnson's Letter, 22d July, 1782.

[71] Major Gilpin's Letters, 16th