Excellency has settled on many persons of inferior rank, who have not so good a claim to
his support; and that it would not be sufficient to enable him to live at Lucknow, where all
his friends and relations were, and so many of his inferiors lived in a state of affluence." In
case, therefore, it could not be increased, he requested leave to live in the Company's
provinces, or at Calcutta; for that in any of these situations "he could with less difficulty
regulate his expenses." And he did declare, that, if his request was granted to him, he would
immediately quit all his prospects with Sindia. To these propositions he received a very
discouraging answer from his brother's minister, containing a positive and final refusal of
any increase of allowance, obtaining only the Nabob's permission to retire into the
Company's provinces. But Mr. Anderson did not think himself authorized to take any steps
for the prince's retreat into the said province without Sindia's concurrence, who, he
observed, would use every art to detain him, and accordingly did offer him the command of
a battalion of infantry to be paid directly from his own treasury, and six thousand pounds
sterling a year for keeping up a corps of horse, and to settle upon him a landed estate of four
thousand pounds a year as a provision for his wife and children: which honorable offers it
appears he did accept, and did and doth remain in the Mahratta service.
L. That, during the whole course of this transaction, the said Warren Hastings was duly
advised thereof, first by a very early letter from the said Anderson, and afterwards by the
Resident, Bristow, who, on the 23d of April, 1783, transmitted to him his whole
correspondence with Mr. Anderson. But what answer or instructions the said Warren
Hastings did give to Mr. Anderson does not appear, he not having recorded anything upon
that subject; but it appears that to the Resident, Bristow, who required to be informed
whether the reception of the fugitive prince aforesaid in the Company's provinces would
meet his approbation, he gave no answer whatsoever: by which criminal neglect, or worse,
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