dependencies, to be immediately under the king's [the Mogul's] orders, and to be
maintained by assignments of territorial revenue within the province of Oude, a dependent
member of the British government, but with a caution against having any British officer
with the same; the said Major Browne expressing his caution as followeth: "If any
European officer be with this corps, a very nice judgment indeed must direct the choice; for
scarce any are in the smallest degree fit for such employ, but much more likely to do harm
than good." And the letter aforesaid being without any observation thereon, or any
disavowal of the matters of fact or of the counsels so strongly and authoritatively delivered
therein by the said Warren Hastings's agent, and without any mark of disapprobation of any
part of his plan, whether that of the assignment of territory belonging to the Company's
allies for the maintenance of troops which were to be by that plan put under the orders of a
foreign independent power, or that of employing the said troops without any British officer
with them, or for his alarming observation by him entered on the Company's records,
which, if not an implied censure on the nature of the service in which British officers are
supposed improper to be trusted, is a strong reflection on the character of the British
officers, which was to render them unfit to be employed in an honorable service,—the said
Warren Hastings did thereby give a countenance to the said unwarrantable and dangerous
proposals and reflections.
VI. That a considerable time before the production and circulation of Major Browne's letter,
the said Hastings did enter a Minute of Consultation containing a proposition similar in the
general intent to that in the said letter contained for assisting the Mogul with a military
force; but the other members of the board did disagree thereto, and, being alarmed at the
disposition so strongly shown by the said Hastings to engage in new wars and dangerous
foreign connections, and possibly having intelligence of the proceedings of his agent, did
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