which by his guilt he had involved the Company in a ruinous war, and out of which it had
escaped by a sacrifice of almost all the territories before acquired (from that enemy which
he had made) either by war or former treaties, and by the abandoning the Company's allies
to their mercy, attribute the said supposed services to his acting in such a manner as had on
former occasions excited their displeasure, in the following words. "Pardon, Honorable
Sirs, this digressive exultation. I cannot suppress the pride which I feel in this successful
achievement of a measure so fortunate for your interests and the national honor; for that
pride is the source of my zeal, so frequently exerted in your support, and never more
happily than in those instances in which I have departed from the prescribed and beaten
path of action, and assumed a responsibility which has too frequently drawn on me the most
pointed effects of your displeasure. But however I may yield to my private feelings in thus
enlarging on the subject, my motive in introducing it was immediately connected with its
context, and was to contrast the actual state of your political affairs, derived from a happier
influence, with that which might have attended an earlier dissolution of it": and he did
value himself upon "the patience and temper with which he had submitted to all the
indignities which have been heaped upon him" (meaning, by the said Court of Directors)
"in this long service"; and he did insolently attribute to an unusual strain of zeal for their
service, that he "persevered in the VIOLENT MAINTENANCE OF HIS OFFICE."
X. That, in order further to excite the spirit of disobedience in the Company's servants to the
lawful authority set over them, he, the said Warren Hastings, did treat contemptuously and
ironically the supposed disposition of the Company's servants to obey the orders of the
Court of Directors, in the words following. "The recall of Mr. Markham, who was known to
be the public agent of my own nomination at Benares, and the reappointment of Mr. Francis
Fowke by your order, contained in the same letter, would place it [the restoration of Cheyt
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