The mother of
Sujah Dowlah returned for answer, that, after there being no accounts
kept of crores of revenues, she was not surprised that the family of
Sujah Dowlah, in their endeavors to procure a subsistence, should be
obliged to expose themselves to the meanest of the people. After
bewailing their misfortunes, and shedding many tears, the Begum took her
leave, and returned home."
That the said affecting narrative being sent, with others of the same
nature, on the 29th of January, 1784, to the said Warren Hastings, he
did not order any relief in consequence thereof, or take any sort of
notice whatsoever of the said intelligence.
LXXV. That the Court of Directors did express strong doubts of the
propriety of seizing the estates aforesaid, and did declare to him, the
said Hastings, "that the only consolation they felt on the occasion is,
that the amount of those jaghires _for which the Company were
guaranties_ is to be paid _through our Resident at the court of the
Vizier_; and it very materially concerns the credit of your Governor on
no account to _suffer such payments to be evaded_.
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