But
in a short time the said Hastings, pretending to receive many complaints
purporting that the tribute to the Nabob remained wholly unpaid, and the
agent to the prince of Furruckabad at the Presidency, and afterwards
chief manager to the prince aforesaid, having, as the said Warren
Hastings saith, "had the insolence to propagate a report that the
_interference_ to which his master owed the power he then enjoyed was
_purchased_ through him," he, the said Hastings, did again (but, as
before, without the Council) "withdraw his protection and interference
altogether," on or about the month of August, 1782, and did signify his
resolution, through the Resident, Middleton, to the Nabob Vizier. But
the said Hastings asserts that "the consequence of this his own second
dereliction of the prince of Furruckabad was _an aggravated renewal of
the severities_ exercised against his government, and the reappointment
of a sezauwil, with powers delegated or assumed, to the _utter
extinction_ of the rights of Muzuffer Jung, and actually depriving him
of the means of subsistence.
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