such nomination shall be approved by his Majesty": which nomination and appointment
was afterwards in due form approved and confirmed by his Majesty.
That the Court of Directors did, by a postscript to their general letter, dated 25th October,
1776, acquaint the Governor-General and Council at Calcutta of their acceptance of the said
resignation, of their appointment of Edward Wheler, Esquire, to fill the said vacancy, and of
his Majesty's approbation of the said appointment, together with the grounds of their said
proceedings; and did transmit to the said Governor-General and Council copies of the said
instruments of appointment and confirmation.
That the said dispatches from the Court of Directors were received at Calcutta, and were
read in Council on the 19th day of June, in the year 1777; and that Warren Hastings,
Esquire, having taken no steps to yield the government to his successor, General Clavering,
and having observed a profound silence on the subject of the said dispatches, he, the said
General Clavering, did, on the next day, being the 20th of June, by a letter addressed to the
said Warren Hastings, require him to surrender the keys of Fort William, and of the
Company's treasuries; but the said Warren Hastings did positively refuse to comply with the
said requisition, "denying that his office was vacated, and declaring his resolution to assert
and maintain his authority by every legal means."
That the said General Clavering, conceiving that the office of Governor-General was
vacated by the arrival of the said dispatches, which acquainted the Council-General of the
resignation of the said Warren Hastings and the appointment of the said Edward Wheler,
Esquire, and that he, the said General Clavering, had in consequence thereof legally
succeeded, under the provisions of the act of the 13th year of his present Majesty's reign, to
the said office of Governor-General, become vacant in the manner aforesaid, did, in virtue
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