" And it appears that
he did write to the Nabob a letter in the same peremptory manner; but
the said letter has been suppressed.
LI. That he, the said Hastings, farther did manifest the concern he took
in, and the encouragement which he gave to the proceedings aforesaid, by
conferring honors and distinctions upon the ministers of the Nabob, whom
he, the Nabob, did consider as having in the said proceedings disobeyed
him and betrayed him, and as instruments in the dishonor of his family
and the usurpation of his authority. That the said ministers did make
addresses to the said Hastings for that purpose (which addresses the
said Hastings hath suppressed); and the Resident, Middleton, did, with
his letter of the 11th of February, 1782, transmit the same, and did in
the said letter acquaint the said Hastings "that the ministers of the
Nabob had incurred much odium on account of their participation in his
measures, and that they were not only considered by the party of the
dispossessed jaghiredars, and the mother and uncle of the Nabob, but _by
the Nabob himself_, as the _dependants of the English government, which
they certainly are, and it is by its declared and most obvious support
alone_ that they can maintain the authority and influence which is
indispensably necessary.
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