" And
speaking of certain alleged indignities offered to the Nabob of Oude,
and certain alleged suspicions of his authority with regard to the
management of his household, he, the said Hastings, did, in the said
minute, endeavor to excite the spirit of the British nation, severely
animadverting on such offences, making use of the following terms: "If
there be a spark of generous virtue in the breasts of any of my
countrymen who shall be the readers of this compilation, this letter" (a
letter of complaint from the Nabob) "shall stand for an instrument to
awaken it to the call of vengeance against so flagitious an abuse of
authority and reproach to the British name."
_From her Excellency the Bhow Begum to Mr. Bristow, Resident at the
Vizier's Court._
There is no necessity to write to you by way of information a detail of
my sufferings. From common report, and the intelligence of those who are
about you, the account of them will have reached your ears. I will here
relate a part of them.
After the death of Sujah Dowlah, most of his ungrateful servants were
constantly laboring to gratify their enmity; but finding, from the firm
and sincere friendship which subsisted between me and the English, that
the accomplishment of their purposes was frustrated, they formed the
design of occasioning a breach in that alliance, to insure their own
success.
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