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pressed of his designs at differeaperiods, and uu
uitferent occasions, your wise policy In endeavouring
to hold•in your-own bands the whole toilitsrypowef
of the country, and that the Nabob -should depend
entirely on the Company for protection and supt!ort,
!legeWed my- condna accordingly; and 'lei-el-40r a
moment lost sight of those great lines of diredion
fp:. My governineut. •
" conciliate the Nabob's 'mind to :his,real si-
Illation,. which he seemed•willing to forget;. to re,
vice.in hiS memory, without'wounding his delicacy
or his prde, the steps by which lie had risen to ele-
vation ; to lead iiim to feel 'his obligations to the:
Company, that whatever rank or territory helm'
elver possessed, either 'by his paper titles or by atitual
occupancy, he derived from their arms, their influ-
ence, their generosity; and that his interests and'
security were so involved in ihpirs,, that to attempt'
or pretend toia• distino; sep:wAV, independent sos
vereigittys, as he talked of, or to imagine that he
could exist without the Company, or to expeet that
' the Company wouldgo on defending the country at
their own expellee, :.withont an adequate share of
the'revenues of it, were absurdities that, ' though in.
;some Measure warranted by former friendship or
contii.,ance, .he ought ne longer • to indulge in; ass
.they Would ptove a fatal deceit -upon himself, and
roust soon end in his total destraelion; and. in that
of his best ft iends on. the coast. :TO engage the.
Nahob'S mind to a calm consideration of these points
:vas " not an easy task ; but'it .was, a necessary one,
and ,vas performed With-success the result was his
assignment of the revenue.
'" Having Obtained this assignment, liheld it fast
with a ,steadiness and' perseverance which the Dur-
bar, I beliin,e, did not expe& ; that whether from
pridss, prudence, or principle, I • held myself above,.
temptation, that from my growin4 experience in
your afthirs, 1 became proof against imposition, and
against those arts which, -having beets • prataised,'
perhaps successtully, upon others., it was provoklug,
to see lost upon, and that throng') e,vesy.trans-
asEtion with thin, I en.;eavourc,t to discharge the
duty of an !sanest- man arts a faithful SCil'ij4it to the
Company and the State—these arc elleneeti, than
know the Durbar will never. forgiyetue ;
.and I hive
therelbre little doubt that wherever, Lam, I shall
meet in my way with trequent traces of their indlig,
pity as long live.' •
" The last expedient, they tried was tics: fakirs-
Cons which were sent to England ; but s.; on a ior-
mer occasion their embassy to England'had been fol-
lowed up with tolerable. success by an embassy to
Bengal, .su sill the present instance the . saute two
Ministers, Assam Cawn and Mr. liichard Joseph ,
Sullivan, ware once More dispatched thither, , with
memorials of csimplaints and accusatiens:agaiept.the
President-of Fort St. Geerge„;alLe,cpially unfounded
as those transmitted to England.,.. There appeared
indeed, at this time, but a slender probability, that
the Ambassadors of ,I.\,WioMot.Ali would make any
impression favottralfle to their cause on the.4'over-
nor-General :and his Council. These Gentlymen.
had, ,in t beotficial private; capacity, ap-'
plauded ilk: ability and the address of I.ord gnarl-
hey, in procuring front the Nabob a voluntary as-
signment, cif, Ins revenues, They had officially cons,
detnned.she Nabob's conch i!..t in withholding, his, as-
sistance towards defraying the expellees of the war,
and declared unequivocally that the case would
_ills.
Iffy a demand troin him of the immediate tiansyr of
his Whole coantry in excluive assigtinient. they:
had proceededso„ far ax to advise the prc(,7oding Gus
r eminent :of Madras; to adopt this llicistire, adding:
that 'Thad. they the authority to, comilemd, • they
shoUlst perithipterilf conutand it.' And when fly:
voluntary assignment, was obtaiitod which extorted
their applause of, the zeal and ability which diaated
and brought to rife& so important a measures ' they
regret that the GovernMesit of Madras should have
staked any consideratiOn even' of delicacy towardS
the Nabob, or attention for those feelinp Which it
might be natural for him to retain for the interests
of the Climatic, to restrain them, front av,aning
themselves :as efFedually of the assignment as the
desperate nec.easity which meted such a concession
inevitably demanded.' Happy,' continue' they,
Would • it be for the national interests and reputa-
tion, if the same disinterested and forbearing 'spirit
should invariably &tate the condud of their affairs,'
Atter many professions of the high. estimatiou'in
which they held the chat-atter .of Lord Macartney,
they recommend‘ that he. assume and exorcise the,
entire, and undivided
.administration of the revenues
of the Carnatic, and every Power connOted with it.
In a word,' say they; the whole sovereignty, .if
it shall. bemecessary to the etfe6tual exercise of such
a charge,' not admitting the interposition of any au-
thority whatever which way possibly impede it. if
you continue the Nabob's agents, or safer them-to
remain; under whatever denomination, in, the ac-
stall orvirtual controul of the revenue,. they are your
servants, and you alone will be deemed responsible
for all their a&s; 'and yoursinterconrse with. rthe
Nabob may, and ought to be restricted to simple
arts and expressions of kindness,':•
" So' much indeed did Mr. Hastings affe6t- to be
captivated with, the assignrfient of the Carnatiem
Lord Macartney, exclusive!of the other Members' of
the- Government, that when Mr. Staunton was at.
-Bengal, he made no scruple in expressing his atinti-
Tation at thesaddreSs' Which .must have been -awl to
procure 'it,eaticlsin; Tecommending his •LordslOP ;to
sprocoed with A high hand; he applauded it •becatisq
it was a bold Measure,. betorerhe seemed toActiow
was a necessary one,,,ist. which ease only it is
Janda* to be

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