That it further appears, that, notwithstanding the new administrator
aforesaid was appointed two months, or thereabouts, after the beginning
of the Fusseli year, that is to say, about the middle of November, 1782,
and the former administrator had collected a certain portion of the
revenues of that year, amounting to 17,000_l._ and upwards, yet he, the
said new administrator, upon the unjust and destructive principle
aforesaid, suggested by the cruel and violent proceedings of the said
Warren Hastings towards his predecessor, did levy on the province,
within the said year, the whole amount of the revenues to be collected,
in addition to the sum collected by his predecessor aforesaid.
That, on account of a great drought which prevailed in the province
aforesaid, a remission of certain duties in grain was proposed by the
chief criminal judge at Benares; but the administrator aforesaid, being
fearful that the revenue should fall short in his hands, did strenuously
oppose himself to the necessary relief to the inhabitants of the said
city.
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