"SIR,--The repeated cries of the women in the Khord Mohul
Zenanah for subsistence have been truly melancholy.
LX. "_They beg most piteously for liberty, that they may earn their
daily bread by laborious servitude, or to be relieved from their misery
by immediate death._
LXI. "In consequence of their unhappy situation, I have this day taken
the liberty of drawing on you in favor of Ramnarain, at ten days' sight,
for twenty Son Kerah rupees, ten thousand of which I have paid to Cojah
Letafit Ali Khan, under whose charge that zenanah is."
LXII. That, notwithstanding all the promises and reiterated engagements
of the minister, Hyder Beg Khan, the ladies of the palace aforesaid fell
again into extreme distress; and the Resident did again complain to the
said minister, who was considered to be, and really and substantially
was, the minister of the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, aforesaid,
and not of the Nabob, (the said Nabob being, according to the said
Hastings's own account, "a cipher in his [the said minister's] hands,")
that the funds allowed for their subsistence were not applied to their
support.
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