I never had the least idea or
expectation from you and the Council that you would ever have given your
orders in so afflicting a manner, in which you never before wrote, and
which I could not have imagined. As I am resolved to _obey_ your orders,
and directions of the Council, without any delay, as long as I live, I
have, agreeably to those _orders_, delivered up _all my private papers_
to him [the Resident], that, when he shall have examined my receipts and
expenses, _he may take whatever remains_. As I know it to be my duty to
satisfy you, the Company, and Council, I have not failed to _obey_ in
any instance, but requested of him that it might be done so as not to
_distress me in my necessary expenses_: there being no other funds but
those for the expenses of my mutseddies, household expenses, and
servants, &c. He demanded these in such a manner, that, being
_remediless_, I was obliged to comply with what he required. He has
accordingly _stopped the pensions of my old servants for thirty years,
whether sepoys, mutseddies, or household servants, and the expenses of
my family and kitchen, together with the jaghires of my grandmother,
mother, and aunts, and of my brothers and dependants, which were for
their support_.
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