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XVI. That it does not appear that the said Hastings did write any
letter in answer to the proposal of the said Middleton, but he, the said
Hastings, did communicate his pleasure thereon, to Sir Elijah Impey,
being then at Lucknow, for his, the said Middleton's, information; and
it does appear that the seizing of the treasures of the mother of the
Nabob, said to have been proposed as _an alternative_ by the said Nabob
to prevent the resumption of the jaghires, was determined upon and
ordered by the said Hastings,--and that the resumption of the said
jaghires, for the ransom of which the seizing of the treasures was
proposed, was also directed: not one only, but both sides of the
alternative, being enforced upon the female parents of the Nabob
aforesaid, although both the one and the other had been secured to them
by a treaty with the East India Company.
XVIII.[60] That Sir Elijah Impey, Knight, his Majesty's chief-justice at
Port William, did undertake a journey of nine hundred miles, from
Calcutta to Lucknow, on pretence of health and pleasure, but was in
reality in the secret of these and other irregular transactions, and
employed as a channel of confidential communication therein.
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