PART IV.
SECOND REVOLUTION IN BENARES.
That the said Warren Hastings, after he had, in the manner aforesaid,
unjustly and violently expelled the Rajah Cheyt Sing, the lord or
zemindar of Benares, from his said lordship or zemindary, did, of his
own mere usurped authority, and without any communication with the other
members of the Council of Calcutta, appoint another person, of the name
of Mehip Narrain, a descendant by the mother from the late Rajah,
Bulwant Sing, to the government of Benares; and on account or pretence
of his youth and inexperience (the said Mehip Narrain not being above
twenty years old) did appoint his father, Durbege Sing, to act as his
representative or administrator of his affairs; but did give a
controlling authority to the British Resident over both, notwithstanding
his declarations before mentioned of the mischiefs likely to happen to
the said country from the establishment of a Resident, and his opinion
since declared in a letter to the Court of Directors, dated from this
very place (Benares) the 1st of October, 1784, to the same or stronger
effect, in case "agents are sent into the country, and armed with
authority for the purposes of vengeance and corruption,--_for to no
other will they be applied_.
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