They will not need to be prompted. I hope I shall not depart from
the simplicity of official language in saying, the majesty of justice
ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or
invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs and
the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishments before
trial, and even before accusation."
LXXVIII. That the said Warren Hastings, in attempting to pass an act of
indemnity for his own crimes, and of oblivion for the sufferings of
others, supposing the latter _almost obliterated_ by time, did not only
mock and insult over the sufferings of the allies of the Company, but
did show an indecent contempt of the understandings of the Court of
Directors: because his violent attempts on the property and liberty of
the mother and grandmother of the ally aforesaid had not their first
commencement much above two years before that time, and had been
continued, without abatement or relaxation on his part, to the very time
of his minute; the Nabob having, by the instigation of his, the said
Hastings's, instrument, Hyder Beg Khan, not two months before the date
of the Consultation, been obliged a second time to break his faith with
relation to the estates of his mother, in the manner hereinbefore
recited.
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