India, as it was his duty to have done, did continue to abet, encourage, and support the
dangerous projects of the Presidency of Bombay, and did thereby manifest a determined
intention to disturb the peace of India, by the unfortunate success of which intention, and by
the continued efforts of the said Hastings, the greatest part of India has been for several
years involved in a bloody and calamitous war. That both the Court of Directors and Court
of Proprietors did specially instruct the said Warren Hastings, in all his measures, "to make
the safety and prosperity of Bengal his principal object," and did heavily censure the said
Warren Hastings for having employed their troops at a great distance from Bengal in a war
against the Rohillas, which the House of Commons have pronounced to be iniquitous ,[17]
and did on that occasion expressly declare, "that they disapproved of all such distant
expeditions as might eventually carry their forces to any situation too remote to admit of
their speedy and safe return to the protection of their own provinces, in case of
emergency."!!8! That the said Warren Hastings nevertheless ordered a detachment from the
Bengal army to cross the Jumna, and to proceed across the peninsula by a circuitous route
through the diamond country of Bundelcund, and through the dominions of the Rajah of
Berar, situated in the centre of Hindostan, and did thereby strip the provinces subject to the
government of Fort William of a considerable part of their established defence, and did
thereby disobey the general instructions and positive orders of the Court of Directors,
(given upon occasion of a crime of the same nature committed by the said Hastings,) and
was guilty of a high crime and misdemeanor.
That the said Warren Hastings, having taken the measures hereinbefore described for
supporting those of the Presidency of Bombay, did, on the 23d of March, 1778, "invest the
said Presidency with authority to form a new alliance with Ragoba, and to engage with him
in any scheme which they should deem expedient and safe for retrieving his affairs." That
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