The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

D'Oyly should approve, to his presence; and did repeat the said order in the following
peremptory manner: "You must forbid any person of that nation to be intruded into your
presence without his introduction." And he did require his obedience in the following
authoritative style: "I shall think myself obliged to interfere in another manner, if you
neglect it."

XXX. 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

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