LXXXI. That the violent proceedings of the said Warren Hastings did tend
to impress all the neighboring princes, some of whom were allied in
blood to the oppressed women of rank aforesaid, with an ill opinion of
the faith, honor, and decency of the British nation; and accordingly, on
the journey aforesaid made by the Nabob from Lucknow to Fyzabad, in
which the said Nabob did restore, in the manner before mentioned, the
confiscated estates of his mother and grandmother, and did afterwards
revoke his said grant, it appears that the said journey did cause a
general alarm (the worst motives obtaining the most easy credit with
regard to any future proceeding, on account of the foregone acts) and
excited great indignation among the ruling persons of the adjacent
country, insomuch that Major Brown, agent to the said Warren Hastings at
the court of the King Shah Allum at Delhi, did write a remonstrance
therein to Mr. Bristow, Resident at Oude, as follows.
"The evening of the 7th, at a conference I had with Mirza Shaffee Khan,
he introduced a subject, respecting the Nabob Vizier, which, however it
may be disagreeable for you to know, and consequently for me to
communicate, I am under a necessity of laying before you.
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