If it is the Nabob's
desire to forget and to forgive their past offence, I have no objection
to his allowing them, in pension, the nominal amount of their jaghires;
but if he shall _ever offer_ to restore their jaghires to them, or to
give them any property in land, after the warning which they have given
him by the dangerous abuse which they formerly made of his indulgence,
you must remonstrate in the strongest terms against it; _you must not
permit such an event to take place_, until this government shall have
received information of it, and shall have had time to interpose its
influence for the prevention of it." And the said Warren Hastings, who
did in the manner aforesaid positively refuse to admit the Nabob to
restore to his mother and grandmother any part of their landed estates
for their maintenance, did well know that the revenues of the said Nabob
were at that time so far applied to the demands of the Company, (by him,
the said Warren Hastings, aggravated beyond the whole of what they did
produce,) or were otherwise so far applied to the purposes of several of
the servants of the Company, and others, the dependants of him, the said
Hastings, that none of the pensions or allowances, assigned by the said
Nabob in lieu of the estates confiscated, were paid, or were likely to
be discharged, with that punctuality which was necessary even to the
scanty subsistence of the persons to which they were in name and
appearance applied.
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