" That the said Hastings,
stating his pretended facts to amount to a charge of the nature (as he
would have it understood) of high treason, and _therefore_ calling for
an _immediate_ answer, did wilfully act against the rules of natural
justice, which requires that a convenient time should be given to
answer, proportioned to the greatness of the offence alleged, and the
heavy penalties which attend it; and when he did arrogate to himself a
right both to charge and to judge in his own person, he ought to have
allowed the Rajah full opportunity for conferring with his ministers,
his doctors of law, and his accountants, on the facts charged, and on
the criminality inferred in the said accusation of disloyalty and
disaffection, or offences of that quality.
VII. That the said Rajah did, under the pressure of the disadvantages
aforesaid, deliver in, upon the very evening of the day of the charge, a
full, complete, and specific answer to the two articles therein
specified; and did allege and offer proof that the whole of the
extraordinary demands of the said Hastings had been actually long before
paid and discharged; and did state a proper defence, with regard to the
cavalry, even supposing him bound (when he was not bound) to furnish
any.
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