"I have never swerved in the smallest degree from my
duty to you. It remains with you to decide on all these matters. I am in
every case your slave. What is just I have represented to you. May your
prosperity increase!"
VIII. That the said Warren Hastings was bound by the essential
principles of natural justice to attend to the claim made by the Rajah
to a fair and impartial trial and inquiry into the matter of accusation
brought against him by the said Hastings, at a time and place which
furnished all proper materials and the presence of all necessary
witnesses; but the said Hastings, instead of instituting the said
inquiry and granting trial, did receive an humble request for justice
from a great prince as a fresh offence, and as a personal insult to
himself, and did conceive a violent passion of anger and a strong
resentment thereat, declaring that he did consider the said answer as
not only unsatisfactory in substance, but offensive in style. "This
answer you will perceive to be not only unsatisfactory in substance, but
offensive in style, and less a vindication of himself than a
recrimination on me.
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