Sing] beyond a doubt. This order has been obeyed; and whenever you shall be pleased to
order the restoration of Cheyt Sing, I will venture to promise the same ready and exact
submission in the other members of the Council." And he did, in the postscript of the said
letter, and as on recollection, endeavor to make a reparation of honor to his said colleagues,
as if his expressions aforesaid had arisen from animosity to them, as follows. "Upon a
careful revisal of what I have written, I fear that an expression which I have used,
respecting the probable conduct of the board in the event of orders being received for the
restoration of Cheyt Sing, may be construed as intimating a sense of dissatisfaction applied
to transactions already past.—It is not my intention to complain of any one."
XI. That the said Hastings, in the acts of injury aforesaid to the Rajah of Benares, did
assume and arrogate to himself an illegal authority therein, and did maintain that the acts
done in consequence of that measure were not revocable by any subsequent authority, in the
following words. "If you should proceed to order the restoration of Cheyt Sing to the
zemindary, from which, by the powers which I legally possessed, and conceive myself
legally bound to assert against any subsequent authority to the contrary derived from the
same common source, he was dispossessed for crimes of the greatest enormity, and your
Council shall resolve to execute the order, I will instantly give up my station and the
service."
XII. That the said Warren Hastings did attempt to justify his publication of the said
libellous letter to and against the Court of Directors by asserting therein that these
resolutions (meaning the resolutions of the Court of Directors relative to the Rajah of
Benares) "were either published or intended for publication": evidently proving that he did
take this unwarrantable course without any sufficient assurance that the ground and motive
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