Hastings were rejected with slight and contempt by the Rajah of Berar; but the same being
discovered, and generally known throughout India, did fill the chief of the princes and
states of India with a general suspicion and distrust of the ambitious designs and
treacherous principles of the British government, and with an universal hatred of the British
nation. That the said princes and states were thereby so thoroughly convinced of the
necessity of uniting amongst themselves to oppose a power which kept no faith with any of
them, and equally threatened them all, that, renouncing all former enmities against each
other, they united in a common confederacy against the English, viz.: the Peshwa, as
representative of the Mahratta state, and Moodajee Boosla, the Rajah of Berar, that is, the
principal Hindoo powers of India, on one side; and Hyder Ali, and the Nizam of the
Deccan, that is, the principal Mahomedan powers of India, on the other: and that in
consequence of this confederacy Hyder Ali invaded, overran, and ruined the Carnatic; and
that Moodajee Boosla, instead of ardently catching at the objects presented to his ambition
by the said Hastings, sent an army to the frontiers of Bengal,—which army the said Warren
Hastings was at length forced to buy off with twenty-six lacs of rupees, or 300,000l.
sterling, after a series of negotiations with the Mahratta chiefs who commanded that army,
founded and conducted on principles so dishonorable to the British name and character, that
the Secret Committee of the House of Commons, by whom the rest of the proceedings in
that business were reported to the House, have upon due consideration thought it proper to
leave out the letter of instructions to Mr. Anderson, viz., those given by the said Warren
Hastings to the representative of the British government, and concerning which the said
committee have reported in the following terms: "The schemes of policy by which the
Governor-General seems to have dictated the instructions he gave to Mr. Anderson" (the
gentleman deputed) "will also appear in this document, as well respecting the particular
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