" But the said Warren
Hastings did never make the arrangement supposed in the said letter to
be actually made, nor did he cause the Resident to pay them the amount
of their jaghires, or to make any payment to them.
And the said Hastings being expressly ordered by the Court of Directors
to restore to them their estates, in case the charges made upon them
should not be found true, he, the said Hastings, did contumaciously and
cruelly decline any compliance with the said orders until his journey to
Lucknow, in ----, when he did, as he says, "conformably to the orders of
the Court of Directors, and more to the inclination of the Nabob Vizier,
restore to them their jaghires, but with the defalcation, according to
his own account, of _a large portion_ of their respective shares":
pretending, without the least probability, that the said defalcation was
a "voluntary concession on their part." But what he has left to them for
their support, or in what proportion to that which he has taken away, he
has nowhere stated to the Court of Directors, whose faith he has broken,
and whose orders he has thus eluded, whilst he pretended to yield _some_
obedience to them.
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