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LXXXVII. That the said Warren Hastings did enter a reply to this answer,
in support of his criminal charge, continuing to insist "that his orders
ought to have been literally obeyed," although he did not deny that the
above difficulties occurred, and the above consequences must have been
the result,--and though the reports of the military officers charged
with the execution of his commission confirmed the moral impossibility,
as well as inutility in point of profit, of forcing a son to greater
violence and rigor against his mother.
LXXXVIII. That the said Hastings, after all the acts aforesaid, did
presume to declare on record, in his minute of the 23d September, 1788,
"that, whatever may happen of the events which he dreads in the train of
affairs now subsisting, he shall at least receive this consolation under
them, that he used his utmost exertions to prevent them, and that in the
annals of the nations of India which have been subjected to the British
dominions _HE shall not be remembered among their oppressors_.
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