1784 [1781?], to remove the Resident Bristow aforesaid from his office, a letter from the
Nabob was laid before the Council Board at Calcutta, proposing, that, in order to prevent
the effects of the said Bristow's application to Europe for redress, the said Hastings should
send him drafts of letters which he, the said Nabob, would write in his own name and
character to the King, to his Majesty's ministers, and to the Court of Directors, expressing
himself, in the letter aforesaid, in the words following, viz., "To prevent his [Bristow's]
applying to Europe, send me, if you think proper, the drafts of letters which I may write to
the King, the Vizier, and the chiefs of the Company";—thirdly, that, though the said
Hastings, and his secret agent, Palmer, did pretend and positively assert that they had no
share in the letters aforesaid from the Nabob and his minister, there was an original note to
the Nabob's letters of accusation, referring to distinct parts and specified numbers of the
agent Palmer's secret correspondence with the said Warren Hastings, and the said letter,
with the said reference, was, through inadvertence, laid before the board.
LXVI. That the said Warren Hastings, having thrown the government of Oude into great
confusion and distress, and thereby prevented the discharge of the debt, or pretended debt,
to the Company, did, by all the said intrigues, machinations, and charges, aim at the filling
the said office of Resident at Oude with his own dependants or by himself personally; as it
appears that he did first propose to place in the said office his secret agent, Palmer, and that
afterwards, when he was not able to succeed therein, he did propose nominally to abolish
the said office, but in effect to fill it by himself,—proposing to the Council and rendering
himself responsible (but not in fortune) for the payment of the Company's debt within a
certain given time, if he were permitted and commissioned by the Council to act for the
board in that province, and did inform them that he was privately well assured that in a few
days he should receive an invitation to that effect; and he did state, (as in the year 1781 he
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