" And the representation containing that prudent and temperate
counsel, given by a military man of undoubted information and perfect
experience in the local circumstances of the country, was transmitted by
the Resident, Bristow, to the said Warren Hastings, who did wilfully and
criminally omit to order any relief to the said Rajah in conformity to
the general sense and wishes of the inhabitants, a compliance with whose
so reasonable an expectation his duty in restoring the tranquillity of
the country and in retrieving the honor of the English government did
absolutely require; but instead of making such provision, a price was
set upon his head, and several bodies of British troops being employed
to pursue him, after many skirmishes and much bloodshed and mutual waste
of the country, the said Rajah, honored and respected by the natives,
was hunted down, and at length killed in a thicket.
FOOTNOTES:
[59] See Hastings's Letter.
[60] Sic orig.
[61] 26th Dec., 1781.
[62] 13th Jan., 1782.
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