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III. That the said native sequestrator being withdrawn, and a Resident
appointed, no complaint whatever concerning the collection of the
revenue, or of any indignities offered to the prince of the country or
oppression of his subjects by the said Resident, was made to the
Superior Council at Calcutta; yet the said Warren Hastings did,
nevertheless, in a certain paper, purporting to be a treaty made at
Chunar with the Nabob of Oude, on the 19th September, 1781, at the
request of the said Nabob, consent to an article therein, "That no
English Resident be appointed to Furruckabad, and that the present be
recalled." And the said Warren Hastings, knowing that the Nabob of Oude
was ill-affected towards the said Nabob of Furruckabad, and that he was
already supposed to have oppressed him, did justify his conduct on the
principles and in the words following: "That, if the Nabob Muzuffer Jung
_must_ endure oppression, (_and I dare not at this time propose his
total relief_,) it concerns the reputation of our government to remove
_our participation in it_.
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