Consultation, when the aforesaid measure was proposed by the said Hastings to the
Supreme Council, he did affirm and maintain that the troops aforesaid "had now no
separate or distinct existence from ours, and may be properly said to consist of our whole
military establishment, with the exception only of our European infantry; and that they
could not be withdrawn without imposing on the Company the additional burden of them,
or disbanding nine battalions of disciplined sepoys and three regiments of horse."
IX. That in the Minute of Consultation aforesaid, he, the said Warren Hastings, hath further,
in justification of the violent and arbitrary proceedings aforesaid, asserted, "that the
arrangement of measures between the British government and their allies, the native powers
of India, must, in case of disagreement about the necessity thereof, be decided by the
strongest"; and hath thereby advanced a dangerous and most indecently expressed position,
subversive of the rights of allies, and tending to breed war and confusion, instead of
cordiality and cooperation amongst them, and to destroy all confidence of the princes of
India in the faith and justice of the English nation. And the said Hastings, having further, in
the minute aforesaid, presumed to threaten to "bring to punishment, if my influence" (his,
the said Hastings's, influence) "can produce that effect, those incendiaries who have
endeavored to make themselves the instruments of division between us," hath, as far as in
him lay, obstructed the performance of one of the most essential duties of a prince engaged
in an unequal alliance with a presiding state,—that of representing the grievances of his
subjects to that more powerful state by whose acts they suffer: leaving thereby the
governing power in total ignorance of the effects of its own measures, and to the oppressed
people no other choice than the alternative of an unqualified submission, or a resistance
productive of consequences more fatal.
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