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XXX. That, after the surrender of the treasure, and the passing the
bonds and obligations given as aforesaid, the Resident having been
strictly ordered by the said Warren Hastings not to make any settlement
whatsoever with the said women of high rank, the Nabob was induced to
leave the city of Fyzabad without taking leave of his mother, or showing
her any mark of duty or civility. And on the same day the Resident left
the city aforesaid; and after his return to Lucknow, in order to pacify
the said Hastings, who appeared to resent that the Nabob was not urged
to greater degrees of rigor than those hitherto used towards his mother,
he, the said Resident, did, in his letter of the 6th February, give him
an assurance in the following words:--"I shall, as you direct, use my
influence to dissuade his Excellency from concluding _any settlement_
until I have your further commands."
XXXI. That the payment of the bond last extorted from the eunuchs was
soon after commenced, and the grandmother, as well as the mother, were
now compelled to deliver what they declared was _the extent of the
whole_ of both their possessions, including down to their _table
utensils_; which, as the Resident admitted, "they had been and were
still delivering, and that no proof had yet been obtained of their
having more.
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