" And on the
28th, it should seem, that the severities for the purpose aforesaid were
inflicted, at least upon one of them; for the Assistant Resident,
Johnson, did on that day write to Captain Waugh, the officer commanding
the guard, the letter following, full of disgrace to the honor, justice,
and humanity of the British nation.
XLIII. "SIR,--The Nabob having determined _to inflict corporal
punishment upon the prisoners_ under your guard, this is to desire that
his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the
prisoners, and _be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper_,
only taking care that they leave them always under your charge."
XLIV. That the said Richard Johnson did, further to terrify the
prisoners, and to extort by all ways the remainder of the said unjust,
oppressive, and rapacious demand, threaten to remove them out of the
Nabob's dominions into the castle of Churnagur, in order forever to
separate them from their principals, and deprive both of their
reciprocal protection and services,[67]--and did order a further guard
to be put on the palace of the grandmother of the Nabob, an ally of the
Company, and to prevent the entrance of the provisions to her, (which
order relative to the guard only was executed,) and did use sundry
unworthy and insulting menaces both with regard to herself and to her
principal ministers.
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