our records for cavils and informations against me, I think it proper to forbid and protest
against the use of any fraudulent artifice or treachery to accomplish the end which I have
prescribed; and as you alone are privy to the order, you will of course observe the greatest
secrecy, that it may not transpire: but I repeat my recommendation of it, as one of the first
and most essential duties of your office."
LXXIII. That, among the reasons assigned for putting to death the said Almas Ali, which
the said Hastings did recommend directly and repeatedly to the Resident, "as one of the first
and most essential duties of his office," was, in substance, "that, by his extensive trust with
regard to the revenues, he had been permitted to acquire independency; that the means
thereof had been long seen and the effects thereof foretold by every person acquainted with
the state of government, except those immediately interested in it"; and he, the said Warren
Hastings, did also charge the said Almas Ali with embezzlement of the revenues and
oppression of the people; and nothing appears to disprove the same, but much to give
ground to a presumption that the said Almas Ali did grievously abuse the power committed
to him, as farmer and collector of the revenue, to the great oppression of the inhabitants of
the countries which had been rented to him by Hyder Beg Khân with the knowledge and
consent of the said Warren Hastings.
LXXIV. That the Resident, Bristow, declining the violent attempt on the life of Almas Ali
deceitfully ordered by the said Warren Hastings, did, on weighty reasons, drawn from the
spirit of the said Hastings's own instructions, recommend that his, the said Almas Ali
Khân's, farms of revenue, or a great part of them, should be, on the expiration of his lease,
taken out of his hands, as being too extensive, and supplying the means of a dangerous
power in the country; but yet he, the said Warren Hastings, did not only continue him in the
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