But the letters of the Nabob, which in the
said instructions he refers to as containing an opposition to the
measures recommended by him, and which he asserts was conveyed in a very
unbecoming tone of refusal, reproach, and resentment, he, the said
Hastings, hath criminally withheld from the Company, contrary to their
orders, and to his duty,--and the more, as the said letters must tend to
show in what manner the said Nabob did feel the indignities offered to
his mother, and the manner in which the said ministers, notwithstanding
their known dependence on the English government, did express their
sense of the part which their sovereign was compelled to act in the said
disgraceful measures. And in farther instructions to him, the said new
Resident, he did declare his approbation of the evil acts aforesaid, as
well as his resolution of compelling the Nabob to those rigorous
proceedings against his parent from which he had long shown himself so
very averse, in the following words. "The severities which have been
increased towards the Begums were most justly merited by the advantage
which they took of the troubles in which I was personally involved last
year, to create a rebellion in the Nabob's government, and to complete
the ruin which they thought was impending on ours.
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