letter aforesaid of the 16th June, 1784, that the exception which he contended to be implied
in the orders of the Court of Directors forbidding the intermeddling in the disputes of "the
country powers," namely, "powers not permanent," did by no means apply to the Mahrattas;
and he informs the Court of Directors that he did, on the very first advice he received of the
flight of the Mogul's son, write to Mr. James Anderson to apprise the Mahratta chief,
Sindia, of that event,—"for which as he was unprepared, he desired his [the said Sindia's]
advice for his conduct on the occasion of it." Which method of calling for the advice of a
foreign power to regulate his political conduct, instead of being regulated therein by the
advice of the British Council and the standing orders of the Court of Directors, was a
procedure highly criminal; and the crime is aggravated by his not communicating the said
correspondence to the Council-General, as by his duty he was bound to do; but it does
abundantly prove his concert with the Mahrattas in all that related to his negotiations in the
Mogul court, which were carried on agreeably to their advice, and in subserviency to their
views and purposes.
XVIII. That, in consequence of the cabal begun with the Mahrattas, the said chief, Sindia,
did send his "familiar and confidential ministers" to him, the said Hastings, being at
Lucknow, with whom the said Hastings did hold several secret conferences, without any
secretary or other assistant: and the said Hastings hath not conveyed to the Court of
Directors any minutes thereof, but hath purposely involved even the general effect and
tendency of these conferences in such obscurity that it is no otherwise possible to perceive
the drift and tendency of the same, but by the general scope of councils and acts relative to
the politics of the Mogul and of the Mahrattas together, and by the final event of the whole,
which is sufficiently visible. For
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