personal disbursements from the public accounts: they must not exceed what he has
received in any of the last three years." And as to the public treasury and disbursements, he,
the said Hastings, did, in the said instructions, wholly withdraw them from the personal
management or interference of the Nabob, and did expressly order and direct "that they
should be under the sole management of the ministers, with the Resident's concurrence."
And on the appointment of the Resident Bristow, in October, 1782, he, the said Hastings,
did order and direct him in every point of the instructions to Middleton not revoked or
qualified by his then instructions, to which he did require his, the said Resident Bristow's,
"most attentive and literal obedience."
LVIII. That the said Resident Bristow did, in consequence of the renewal to him of the said
instructions as aforesaid, endeavor to limit and put in order the Nabob's expenses; but he
was in that particular traversed and counteracted, and in the end wholly defeated, by the
minister, Hyder Beg Khân. And though the obstructions aforesaid, agreeably to the
instructions given to Middleton, and to him, the said Bristow, were represented to the said
Warren Hastings by the Resident aforesaid, yet the said Warren Hastings did give no kind
of support to the said Resident, or take any steps towards enabling him, the said Resident,
to effectuate the said necessary limitation and distribution of expenses, by himself, the said
Hastings, ordered and prescribed; nor, if he disapproved the proceedings of the said
Resident, did he give him any instruction for the forbearance of the same, or for the
exerting his duty in any other mode; nor did he call for any illustration from him of
anything doubtful in his correspondence, nor state to him any complaint made privately of
his conduct, in order to receive thereon an explanation; but he did leave him to pursue at his
discretion the extensive powers before described, to effect the reformation which he was
directed to accomplish, under the responsibility denounced to him as aforesaid, if he should
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