He has deceived me; he has offended against the government which I then
represented." And as a further reason for depriving him of his jaghire,
(or salary out of land,) he did insinuate in the said letter, but
without giving or offering any proof, "that the said Rajah had been
guilty of _little and mean peculations_, although the appointments
assigned to him had been sufficient to free him from the temptations
thereto."
That it appears, as it might naturally have been expected, that the wife
of the said administrator, the daughter of Bulwant Sing, the late Rajah
of Benares, and her son, the reigning Rajah, did oppose to the best of
their power, but by what remonstrances or upon what plea the said Warren
Hastings did never inform the Court of Directors, the deposition,
imprisonment, and confiscation of the estates of the husband of the one
and the father of the other; but that the said Hastings, persisting in
his malice, did declare to the said Council as follows: "The opposition
made by the Rajah and the old Rannee, both equally incapable of judging
for _themselves_, does certainly originate from some secret influence,
which ought to be checked by a decided and peremptory declaration of the
authority of the board, and a denunciation of their displeasure at
_their presumption_.
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