, until the 6th of October, 1783: the said letter and minute being,
as he asserts, "_withheld_, from causes _not necessary to mention_, from
presentation." By which means the said country and prince did suffer a
long continuance of unnecessary hardship, from which the said Hastings
confessed it was his duty to relieve them, and that a British Resident
was necessary at Furruckabad, "from a sense of submission to the
_implied_ orders of the Court of Directors in their letter of 1783,
lately received, added to _the conviction I have LONG SINCE_ entertained
_of the necessity of such an appointment for the preservation of our
national credit_, and the means of rescuing an ancient and respectable
family from ruin."
And the said Warren Hastings did at length perform what he thought had
_long since_ been necessary; and in contradiction to his engagements
with the Nabob in the treaty of Chunar, and against his strong
remonstrances, urging his humiliation from this measure, and the faith
of the agreement, and against his own former declaration that it
concerned the reputation of our government to remove our participation
in the oppressions which he, the said Hastings, supposed the prince of
Furruckabad must undergo, did once more recommend to the Council a
British Resident at Furruckabad, and the withdrawing the native
sezauwil: no course being left to the said Hastings to take which was
not a violation of some engagement, and a contradiction to some
principle of justice and policy by him deliberately advanced and entered
on record.
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