" To which representation it does not appear that any answer was
given, or that any mode of redress was adopted in consequence thereof.
That the said Warren Hastings, having passed through the province of
Benares (Gazipore) in his progress towards Oude, did, in a letter dated
from the city of Lucknow, the 2d of April, 1784, give to the Council
Board at Calcutta an account, highly dishonorable to the British
government, of the effect of the arrangements made by himself in the
years 1781 and 1782, in the words following. "Having contrived, by
making forced stages, while the troops of my escort marched at the
ordinary rate, to make a stay of five days at Benares, I was thereby
furnished with the means of acquiring some knowledge of the state of the
province, which I am anxious to communicate to you. Indeed, the inquiry,
which was _in a great degree obtruded upon me_, affected me with very
mortifying reflections on my inability to apply it to any useful
purpose. From the confines of Buxar to Benares I was followed and
_fatigued_ by the clamors of the discontented inhabitants.
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