That the said Warren Hastings did, in his letter, dated Benares, the 1st of October, 1784, to the Court of Directors, write, "that, if they [the Directors] manifested no _symptoms_ of an (1.) _intended_ interference, the objects of his engagements will be obtained; (2.) but if a different policy shall be adopted,--if new agents are sent into the country, and armed with authority for the purposes of vengeance or corruption (_for to no other will they be applied_),--if new demands are made on the Nabob Vizier, (4.) and accounts overcharged on one side, with a wide latitude taken on the other, to swell his debt beyond the means of payment,--( 5.) if political dangers are portended, to ground on them the plea of burdening his country with unnecessary defences and enormous subsidies,--( 6.) or if, even abstaining from _direct encroachment on the Nabob's rights_, your government shall show but _a degree of personal kindness to the partisans_ of the late usurpation, or by any constructive indication of partiality and dissatisfaction _furnish_ grounds for the _expectation_ of an _approaching_ change of system,--I am sorry to say, that all my labors will prove abortive." LXXX.

That all the measures deprecated in future by the said Warren Hastings, with a reference to former conduct, in his several letters aforesaid, being (so far as the same are intelligible) six in number, have been all of them the proper acts and measures of the said Warren Hastings himself.

For he did himself first of all introduce, and did afterwards continue and support, that interference which he now informs the Court of Directors "is ruinous and disreputable, and which the very _symptoms_ of an _intention_ to renew" he considers in the highest degree dangerous; he did direct, with a controlling and absolute authority, in every department of government, and in every district in the dominions of the Nabob of Oude.

Secondly, the appointment of agents, which was eminently the act of his own administration: he not only retaining many agents in the country of Oude, both "_secret and avowed_," but also sending some of them, in defiance to the orders of that very Court of Directors, to whom, in his said letter of the 1st of October, 1784, he assigns "vengeance and corruption" as the only motives that can produce such appointments.

Thirdly, that he, the said Warren Hastings, did instruct one of the said agents, and did charge him upon pain of "_a dreadful responsibility_," to perform sundry acts of violence against persons of the highest distinction and nearest relation to the prince; which acts were justly liable to the imputation of "_vengeance_" in the execution, and which he, in his reply to the defence of Middleton to one of his charges, did declare to be liable to the suspicion of "_corruption_ in the relaxation." Fourthly, that he did raise new demands on the Vizier, "and overcharge accounts on one side and take a wide latitude on the other," by sending up a new and before unheard-of overcharge of four hundred thousand pounds and upwards, not made by the Resident or admitted by the Vizier, and, by adding the same, did swell his debt "beyond the means of payment"; and did even insert, as the ninth article of his charge against Middleton, "his omitting to take any notice of the additional balance of Rupees 26,48,571, stated by the Accountant-General to be due from the Vizier on the 30th of April, 1780," to which he did add fourteen lac more, making together the above sum.