" And the said Warren Hastings making,
recording, and acting upon the first of the said false and inhuman
suppositions, most scandalous to this nation, namely, that princes
paying money wholly for the use of the Company, and directly to its
agent, for the maintenance of British troops, by whose force and power
the said revenue was in effect collected, must of necessity endure
oppression, and that our government at any time _dare_ not propose their
_total_ relief, was an high offence and misdemeanor in the said Warren
Hastings, and the rather, because in the said treaty, as well as before
and after, the said Hastings, who pretended not to dare to relieve those
oppressed by the Nabob of Oude, did assume a complete authority over the
said Nabob himself, and did dare to oppress him.
IV. That the second principle assumed by the said Warren Hastings, as
ground for voluntarily abandoning the protection of those whom he had
before undertaken to relieve, _on the sole strength of his own
authority_, and in full confidence of the lawful foundation thereof, and
for delivering over the persons so taken into protection, under false
names and pretended descriptions, to known oppression, asserting that
the reputation of the Company was saved by removing this apparent
participation, when the new as well as the old arrangements were truly
and substantially acts of the British government, was disingenuous,
deceitful, and used to cover unjustifiable designs: since the said
Warren Hastings well knew that all oppressions exercised by the Nabob of
Oude were solely, and in this instance particularly, upheld by British
force, and were imputed to this nation; and because he himself, in not
more than three days after the execution of this treaty, and in virtue
thereof, did direct the British Resident at Oude, in orders _to which he
required his most implicit obedience_, "that the ministers [the Nabob of
Oude's ministers] are to choose _all_ aumils and collectors of revenue
with your concurrence.
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