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XXI. That the said Warren Hastings does admit that the Nabob _had_
originally no regular claim upon him for his interference, or he any
claim on the Nabob, which, might entitle him to interfere in the Nabob's
domestic concerns; yet, in order to justify his so invidious an
interference, he did, in the letter aforesaid, give a false account of
the said treaty, which (as before mentioned) did nothing more than give
a _permission_ to the Nabob to resume the jaghires, _if HE should judge
the same to be necessary_, and did therefore leave the right of
dispensing with the whole, or any part thereof, as much in his option
after the treaty as it was before: the declared intent of the article
being only to remove the restraint of the Company's guaranty forbidding
such resumption, but furnishing nothing which could authorize putting
that resumption into the hands and power of the Company, to be enforced
at their discretion. And with regard to the other part of the spoil made
by order of the said Hastings, and by him in the letter aforesaid stated
to be made equally against the will of the Nabob, namely, that which was
committed on the personal and movable property of the female parents of
the Nabob, nothing whatsoever in relation to the same is stipulated in
the said pretended treaty.
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