But whatever deception he might pretend to be
in concerning the original intention of the Nabob, he was not, nor did
he pretend to be, ignorant of his, the Nabob's, reluctance to _proceed_
in the said measures; but did admit his knowledge of the Nabob's
reluctance to their full execution, and yet did justify the same as
follows.
XX. "I desire that you will inform him [the Nabob], that, in these and
the other measures which were either proposed by him or received his
concurrence in the agreement passed between us at Chunar, I neither had
nor could have any object _but his relief, and the strengthening of his
connection with the Company_; and that I should not on any other ground
have exposed myself to _the personal obloquy which they could not fail
to draw upon me by my participation in them_, but left him to regulate
by his own discretion and by his own means the economy of his own
finances, and, _with much more cause, the assertion of his domestic
right. In these he had no regular claim to my interference_; nor had I,
in my public character, any claim upon him, but for the payment of the
debt then due from him to the Company, although I was under the
strongest obligations to require it for the relief of the pressing
exigencies of their affairs.
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