LXXXVII.  That no exception was ever taken by the said Warren Hastings to the truth of the facts, or to the justness of the observation of the said Resident, which he did transmit to the Court of Directors.  And the said Warren Hastings, in his letter from Chunar, dated the 29th of November, 1781, speaking of the restraints which had been put by him, the said Hastings, on the Nabob, relative to his own mootiana, or forces for collection and police, and the necessity of giving the Resident a control in the nomination of the officers of his army, has asserted, “that the necessity of the reservation arose from a too well known defect in the Nabob’s character:  if this check be withdrawn, and the choice left absolutely to the Nabob, the first commands in his army will be filled with the most worthless and abandoned of his subjects:  his late commander-in-chief is a signal and scandalous instance of this.”

LXXXVIII.  And the said Warren Hastings, in his letter to the Court of Directors, dated Benares, the 15th of October, 1784, even after he had made the aforesaid renunciation of the Company’s authority and influence to the Nabob, did write, “that the Nabob, though most gentle in his manners, and endued with an understanding much above the common level, has been unfortunately bred up in habits that draw his attention too much from his own affairs, and often subject him to the guidance of insidious and unworthy confidants”; which, though more decently expressed with regard to the Nabob than in his former minutes, substantially agrees with them.  And the said Warren Hastings did inform the Court of Directors, after he had solemnly covenanted to withdraw all the Company’s influence on the assurances and promises of a person so by himself described, that, for reasons grounded on his knowledge of the imbecility of the character of the Nabob, he waited in a frontier town, “that he might be at hand to counteract any attempt to defeat the effect of his proceedings at Lucknow”; and in his letter to Mr. Wheler from the same place he did write in the following words:  “I am still near enough to attend to the first effects of the execution, and to interfere with my influence for the removal of any obstructions to which they are or may be liable.”  He therefore found that there was none or but an insufficient security to the effect of his treaty, but in his own direct personal violation of it.  What otherwise was wanting in the security for the Nabob’s engagements was to be supplied as follows:  “The most respectable persons of his family will be employed to counteract every other which may tend to warp him from it; and I am sorry to say that such assistance was wanting.”  And in another letter, “that he had equal ground to expect every degree of support which could be given it by the first characters of his family, who are warmly and zealously interested in it”:  the principal male character of the family, and of the most influence in that family,