LXXX. That the said Warren Hastings, at the time when he pretended
ignorance of all solicitation for justice on the part of the women
aforesaid, and on that pretence did refuse the inquiry moved by his
colleague, Mr. Stables, had in all probability received from the
Resident, Middleton, or, if he had made the slightest inquiry from the
said Middleton, then at Calcutta, might immediately receive, an account
that _they did actually solicit_ the said Resident, through Major
Gilpin, for redress against his, the said Hastings's, calumnious
accusation, and the false testimony by which it was supported, and did
send the said complaint to the Resident, Middleton, by the said Gilpin,
to be transmitted to him, the said Hastings, and the Council, so early
as the 19th of October, 1782; and that she, the mother of the Nabob,
did afterwards send the same to the Resident, Bristow, asserting their
innocence, and accompanying the same with the copies of letters (the
originals of which they asserted were in their hands) from the chief
witnesses against them, Hannay and Gordon, which letters did directly
overturn the charges or insinuations in the affidavits made by them, and
that, instead of any accusation of an attempt upon them and their
parties by the instigation of the mother of the Nabob, or by her
ministers, they, the said Hannay and Gordon, did attribute their
preservation to them and to their services, and did, with strong
expressions of gratitude both to the mother of the Nabob and to her
ministers, fully acknowledge the same: which remonstrance of the mother
of the Nabob, and the letters of the said Hannay and Gordon, are annexed
to this charge; and the said Hastings is highly criminal for not having
examined into the facts alleged in the said remonstrance.
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