IX. That the said Warren Hastings, pretending to have been much alarmed
at the offensive language of the said Rajah's defence, and at certain
appearances of independency which he had observed, not only on former
occasions, but since his arrival at Benares, (where he had been but
little more than one day,) and which appearances he never has specified
in any one instance, did assert that he conceived himself indispensably
obliged to adopt some decisive plan; and without any farther inquiry or
consultation (which appears) with any person, did, at ten o'clock of the
very night on which he received the before-mentioned full and
satisfactory as well as submissive answer, send an order to the British
Resident (then being a public minister representing the British
government at the court of the said Rajah, and as such bound by the law
of nations to respect the prince at whose court he was Resident, and not
to attempt anything against his person or state, and who ought not,
therefore, to have been chosen by the said Hastings, and compelled to
serve in that business) that he should on the next morning arrest the
said prince in his palace, and keep him in his custody until further
orders; which said order being conceived in the most peremptory terms,
the Rajah was put under arrest, with a guard of about thirty orderly
sepoys, with their swords drawn; and the particulars thereof were
reported to him as follows.
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