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XXIV. That this violent assault, and forcible occupation of their
houses, and the further extremities they had to apprehend, did not
prevail on the female parents of the Nabob to consent to any submission,
until the Resident sent in unto them a letter from the said Warren
Hastings,[63] (no copy of which appears,) declaring himself no longer
bound by the guaranty, and containing such other matter as tended to
remove all their hopes, which seemed to be centred in British faith.
XXV. That the chief officers of their household, who were their
treasurers and confidential agents, the eunuchs Jewar Ali Khan and Behar
Ali Khan, persons of great eminence, rank, and distinction, who had been
in high trust and favor with the late Nabob, were ignominiously put into
confinement under an inferior officer, in order to extort the discovery
of the treasures and effects committed to their care and fidelity. And
the said Middleton did soon after, that is to say, on the 12th of
January, 1782, deliver them over for the same purpose into the custody
of Captain Neal Stuart, commanding the eighth regiment, by his order
given in the following words: "To be kept in close and secure
confinement, admitting of no intercourse with them, excepting by their
four menial servants, who are authorized to attend them until further
orders.
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