That the said Resident, being appointed by the votes of the rest of the
Council, in obedience to the reiterated orders of the Company, and in
despite of the opposition of the said Hastings, did proceed to Benares,
and, on the representation of the parties, and the submission of the
accounts of the aforesaid Durbege Sing to an arbitrator, did find him,
the said Durbege Sing, in debt to the Company for a sum not considerable
enough to justify the severe treatment of the said Durbege Sing: his
wife and son complaining, at or about the same time, that the balances
due to him from the _aumils_, or sub-collectors, had been received by
the new administrator, and carried to his own credit, in prejudice and
wrong to the said Durbege Sing; which representation, the only one that
has been transmitted on the part of the said sufferers, has not been
contradicted.
That it appears that the said Durbege Sing did afterwards go to Calcutta
for the redress of his grievances, and that it does not appear that the
same were redressed, or even his complaints heard, but he received two
peremptory orders from the Supreme Council to leave the said city and to
return to Benares; that, on his return to Benares, and being there met
by Warren Hastings aforesaid, he, the said Warren Hastings, although he
had reason to be well assured that the said Durbege Sing was in
possession of small or no substance, did again cruelly and inhumanly,
and without any legal authority, order the said Durbege Sing to be
strictly imprisoned; and the said Durbege Sing, in consequence of the
vexations, hardships, and oppressions aforesaid, died in a short time
after, insolvent, but whether in prison or not does not appear.
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