If I have understood the
matter wrong, or misconceived your design, I am truly sorry for it:
_however, it is not too late to correct the error; and I am ready to
undertake, and, God willing, to carry through, whatever you may, on
receipt of my public letter, tell me is your final resolve_."
XV. That it appears, but on his, the said Middleton's, sole authority,
in a letter from the said Middleton, dated Lucknow, 2d December, 1781,
that the Nabob of Oude, wishing to evade the measure of resuming the
jaghires aforesaid, did send a message to him, purporting, "that, if the
measure proposed was intended to procure the payment of the balance due
to the Company, he could better and more expeditiously effect that
object by taking from his mother the treasures of his father, which he
did assert to be in her hands, and to which he did claim a right; and
that it would be sufficient that he, the said Hastings, _would hint his
opinion upon it, without giving a formal sanction to the measure
proposed_; and that, whatever his resolution upon the subject should be,
it would be expedient to keep it secret": adding, "_The resumption of
the jaghires it is necessary to suspend till I have your answer to this
letter_.
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