That he, the said Warren Hastings, did insult the captive condition of the said Nabob by informing him, in his imperious instructions aforesaid, that this total, blind, and implicit obedience, in every respect whatsoever, to Sir John D'Oyly and himself personally, and without any reference to the board, "was the very _conditions_ of the compliance of the Governor-General and Council with his late requisition"; which requisition was, that he should enjoy _the free and uncontrolled_ management of his own affairs.

And though the said captive did offer, as he, the said Hastings, himself admits, _four lacs_ of his stipend, at that time reduced to sixteen lac, for _the free use of the remainder_, yet he did place him, the said Nabob, in the state of servitude in the said instructions laid down but a very short time after he had assumed and used the said Nabob's independent rights as a ground for refusing to obey the Company's orders,--and although he has declared, or pretended, on another occasion, which he would have thought similar, that any attempt to limit the household expenses of the Nabob of Oude was an indignity, "which no man living, however mean his rank in life, or dependent his condition in it, would permit to be exercised by any other, without the want or forfeiture of every manly principle." XXXI.

That the said Warren Hastings did order the said stipend (which was to be distributed, in the minutest particular, according to the said Hastings's personal directions) to be paid monthly, not to any officer of the Nabob, but to the said Resident, Sir John D'Oyly.

And whereas the Governor-General and Council did, on the appointment of Mahomed Reza Khan, according to their duty, instruct him, that "he do conform to the _orders_ of the Company, which direct that an annual account of the Nabob's expenses be transmitted through the Resident at the Durbar, for the inspection of this _board_" the said Hastings, in making his new establishment in favor of his Resident, did wholly omit the said instruction, and did confine the said communication to _himself_, privately.

And in fact it does not appear that any account whatsoever of the disposition of the said large sum, exceeding 160,000_l._ sterling a year, has been laid before the board, or at least that any such account has been transmitted to the Court of Directors; and it is not fitting that any British servant of the Company should have the management of any public money, much less of so great a sum, without a public well-vouched account of the specific expenditure thereof.
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