Bristow, dated 23d
October, 1782, in effect recommend a perseverance in the cruel and
oppressive restraints aforesaid as a certain means of recovering the
remainder of the extorted bond, and that the lands with which the
princesses aforesaid had been endowed should not be restored to them.
L. That the said Warren Hastings was duly apprised of all the material
circumstances in the unjust proceedings aforesaid, but did nothing to
stop the course they were in, or to prevent, relieve, or mitigate the
sufferings of the parties affected by them: on the contrary, he did, in
his letter of the 25th of January, 1782, to the Resident, Middleton,
declare, that the Nabob having consented to the "resumption of the
jaghires held by the Begums, and to the confiscation of their treasures,
and thereby involved my own name and the credit of the Company in a
participation of both measures, I have a right to _require and insist on
the complete execution of them_; and I look to you for their execution,
declaring that I shall hold you accountable for it.
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