IV. That the prince aforesaid, or Nabob of Oude, did, in humble and
submissive terms, supplicate the said Warren Hastings to be relieved
from a body of troops whose licentious behavior he complained of, and
who were stationed in his country without any obligation by treaty to
maintain them,--pleading the failure of harvest and the prevalence of
famine in his country: a compliance with which request by the said
Warren Hastings was refused in unbecoming, offensive, and insulting
language.
V. That the said Nabob, laboring under the aforesaid and other burdens,
and being continually urged for payment, was advised to extort, and did
extort, from his mother and grandmother, under the pretext of loans,
(and sometimes without that appearance,) various great sums of money,
amounting in the whole to six hundred and thirty thousand pounds
sterling, or thereabouts: alleging in excuse the rigorous demands of the
East India Company, for whose use the said extorted money had been
demanded, and to which a considerable part of it had been applied.
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