That the said Hastings did not only disable the Resident at Furruckabad
by his said prohibitory letter, but did render his very remaining at all
in that station perfectly precarious by a subsequent letter, rendering
him liable to dismission by the Vizier,--thereby changing the tenure of
the Resident's office, and changing him from a minister of the Company,
dependent on the Governor-General and Council, to a dependant upon an
unresponsible power,--in this also acting without the Council, and by
his own usurped authority: and accordingly the said Resident did
declare, in his letter of the 24th of April, 1785, "that the situation
of the country was _more_ distressful than when he [the prince of
Furruckabad] addressed himself for relief in 1783, and that he was sorry
to say that his appointment at Furruckabad was of no use"; that, though
the old tribute could not be paid, owing to famine and other causes, it
was increased by a new imposition, making the whole equal the entire
_gross_ produce of the revenue; that therefore there will not be
"_anything for the subsistence of the Nabob and family_.
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