" And the said Warren
Hastings, taking into consideration the said state of the country and
its prince, and that the latter had "_preferred frequent complaints_"
(which complaints the said Hastings to that time did not lay before the
board, as his duty required) "_of the hardships and indignities_ to
which he is subjected by the conduct of the sezauwil [sequestrator]
stationed in the country for the purpose of levying the annual tribute
which he is bound by treaty to pay to the Subah of Oude," he, the said
Warren Hastings, did declare himself "extremely desirous, as well from
motives of _common justice_ as _due_ regard to _the rank which that
chief holds among the princes of Hindostan_, of affording him relief."
And he, the said Warren Hastings, as the means of the said relief, did,
with the consent of the board, order the said native sequestrator to be
removed, and an English Resident, a servant of the Company, to be
appointed in his room, declaring "he understood a local interference to
be _indispensably necessary_ for realizing the Vizier's just demands.
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