IV. That the said demand was complied with, and the whole thereof paid
on the 10th of October that year. And the said Rajah did write to the
said Hastings a letter, in order to mitigate and mollify him, declaring
to the said Hastings that his sole reliance was on him, "and that in
every instance he depended on his faith, religion, promises, and
actions." But he, the said Warren Hastings, as if the being reminded of
his faith and promises were an incentive to him to violate the same,
although he had agreed that his demand should not be drawn into
precedent, and the payment of the fifty thousand pounds aforesaid should
continue only for one year, did, the very day after he had received the
letter aforesaid, renew a demand of the same nature and on the same
pretence, this year even less plausible than the former, of three
battalions _to be_ raised. The said Rajah, on being informed of this
requisition, did remind the said Warren Hastings that he engaged in the
last year that but one payment should be made, and that he should not be
called upon in future, and, pleading inability to discharge the new
demand, declared himself in the following words to the said Warren
Hastings: "I am therefore hopeful you will be kindly pleased to excuse
me the five lacs now demanded, and that nothing may be demanded of me
beyond the amount expressed in the pottah.
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