And the said Hastings did not and could not conceive that the
clearing the mother could revive any animosity between her and her son,
by whom she never had been accused. The said Hastings was also sensible
that the restoration of her landed estates, recommended by the Court of
Directors, could not produce any ill effect on the mind of the said son,
as it was "with almost unconquerable reluctance he had been persuaded to
deprive her of them," and at the time of his submitting to become an
instrument in this injustice, did "declare," both, to the Resident and
his ministers, "that it was an act of compulsion."
LXXIX. That the said Hastings further, by insinuating that the women in
question would act amiss in appealing to _a foreign jurisdiction_
against a son and grandson, could not forget that he himself, being that
foreign jurisdiction, (if any jurisdiction there was,) did himself
direct and order the injuries, did himself urge the calumnies, and did
himself cause to be taken and produced the unsatisfactory evidence by
which the women in question had suffered,--and that it was against him,
the said Hastings, and not against their son, that they had reason to
appeal.
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