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or services, the said Futty Sing has been left wholly at the mercy of the Mahrattas.

That, with respect to Ragoba, the said Hastings, in his instructions to Mr. Anderson, dated
4th of November, 1781, contented himself with saying, "We cannot totally abandon the
interests of Ragonaut Row. Endeavor to obtain for him an adequate provision." That Mr.
Anderson declared to Mahdajee Sindia,[²2] "that, as we had given Ragoba protection as an
independent prince, and not brought him into our settlement as a prisoner, we could not in
honor pretend to impose the smallest restraint on his will, and he must be at liberty to go
wherever he pleased; that it must rest with Sindia himself to prevail on him to reside in his
country: all that we could do was to agree, after a reasonable time, to withdraw our
protection from him, and not to insist on the payment of the stipend to him, as Sindia had
proposed, unless on the condition of his residing in some part of Sindia's territories."

That, notwithstanding all the preceding declarations, and in violation of the public faith
repeatedly pledged to Ragoba, he was totally abandoned by the said Hastings in the treaty,
no provision whatever being made even for his subsistence, but on a condition to which he
could not submit without the certain loss of his liberty and probable hazard of his life,
namely, that he should voluntarily and of his own accord repair to Sindia, and quietly
reside with him. That such treacherous desertion of the said Ragoba is not capable of being
justified by any plea of necessity: but that in fact no such necessity existed; since it appears
that the Nizam, who of all the contracting parties in the confederacy was personally most
hostile to Ragoba, did himself propose that Ragoba, might have an option given him of
residing within the Company's territories.

That the plan of negotiating a peace with the Mahrattas by application to Sindia, and

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