I hope to be
able in a few days, in consequence of this measure, to transmit you an
account of the actual value and produce of the jaghires, opposed to the
nominal amount at which they stand rated on the books of the circar."
XII. That the said Warren Hastings, instead of expressing any
disapprobation of the proceedings aforesaid, in violation of the rights
secured by treaty with the mother and grandmother of the reigning prince
of Oude, and not less in violation of the sovereign rights of the Nabob
himself, did by frequent messages stimulate the said Middleton to a
perseverance in and to a rigorous execution of the same,--and in his
letter from Benares of the 25th December, 1781, did "express doubts of
his firmness and activity, and, above all, of his recollection of his
instructions and their importance; and that, if he could not rely on his
own [power] and the means he possessed for performing those services, he
_would free him_ [the said Middleton] _from the charges_, and would
proceed _himself_ to Lucknow, and would _himself_ undertake them.
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