" But
although it does not appear that the Resident did give credit to the
said report, yet the effect of the same on the minds of the neighboring
princes did make it proper and necessary to direct a strict inquiry into
the same, which was not done; and it does not appear that any further
inquiry was made into the true motives for this projected journey to
Fyzabad, nor into the proceedings of Hyder Beg Khan, although the said
Warren Hastings well knew that all the acts of the Nabob and his
principal ministers were constantly attributed to him, and that it was
known that secret agents, as well as the Company's regular agent, were
employed by him at Lucknow and other places.
LXXXV. That the said Hastings, who did, on pretence of the majesty of
justice, refuse to inquire into the charges made upon the female
parents of the Nabob of Oude, in justification of the violence offered
to them, did voluntarily and of his own accord make himself an accuser
of the Resident, Middleton, for the want of a literal execution of his
orders in the plans of extortion and rapine aforesaid: the criminal
nature, spirit, and tendency of the said proceedings, for the defective
execution of which he brought the said charge, appearing in the defence
or apology made by Mr.
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