adverse to it; that he would represent the same to the joint members of his own government,
and wait their determination. In the mean time he advised the prince to make advances to
Mahdajee Sindia, both because our government was in intimate and sworn connection with
him, and because he was the effectual head of the Mahratta state; besides that he [the said
Warren Hastings] feared his [Sindia's] taking the other side of the question, unless he was
early prevented."
IX. That in the statement of this discourse there is much criminal reserve towards the Court
of Directors,—it not appearing distinctly what the objects were, nor who the persons
concerned, nor what the side was which he apprehended the Mahrattas might take, if not
prevented by his advances; and in the discourse itself there were many particulars highly
criminal, namely,—for that in the said conversation, in which he describes himself as
declining a compliance with the request of the prince on account of the aversion (therein
strongly expressed) of his colleagues, of the Company, and of the whole British nation, to
engage in any measures which might even "eventually lead to hostilities," he spoke to the
prince as if he had been entirely ignorant of the offers which but five months before had
been made to the king, his father, on the part of that very government, (whose repugnance
to such measures he then for the first time chose to profess, but which he always had
known,) through Major Browne, the Company's representative at the court of Delhi, "to
provide for the entire expense of any troops which the Shah [the king] might require," and
that this was "what the Resident had always proposed to the king and his confidential
ministers,"—the said Browne further declaring, "that, if, in consequence of the said
proposals, certain arrangements for the Shah's service by troops were not immediately
ordered, in his opinion all our [English government's] offers and promises will be
considered as false and insidious." This being the known state of the business, as
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