" And the said Middleton did therefore recommend
"that they should be honored with some testimony of his [the said
Hastings's] approbation and favor." And he, the said Warren Hastings,
did send _kellauts_, or robes of honor, (the most public and
distinguished mode of acknowledging merit known in India,) to the said
ministers, in testimony of his approbation of their late services.
LII. That the said Hastings did not only give the aforesaid public
encouragement to the ministers of the Nabob to betray and insult their
master and his family in the manner aforesaid, but, when the said Nabob
did write several letters to him, the said Hastings, expressive of his
dislike of being used as an instrument in the dishonorable acts
aforesaid, and refusing to be further concerned therein, he, the said
Warren Hastings, did not only suppress and hide the said letters from
the view of the Court of Directors, but in his instructions to the
Resident, Bristow, did attribute them to Hyder Beg Khan, minister to the
Nabob, (whom in other respects he did before and ever since support
against his master,) and did express himself with great scorn and
contempt of the said Nabob, and with much asperity against the said
minister: affirming, in proud and insolent terms, that he had, "by an
abuse of his influence over the Nabob,--he, the Nabob himself, being
(_as he ever must be in the hands of some person_) _a mere cipher in
his [the said minister's],--dared_ to make him [the Nabob] _assume_ a
very _unbecoming_ tone of refusal, reproach, and resentment, in
opposition to _measures recommended by ME_, and even to _acts done by MY
authority_": the said Hastings, in the instruction aforesaid,
particularizing the resumption of the jaghires, and the confiscation of
the treasures that had been so long suffered to remain in the hands of
his, the Nabob's, mother.
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