will in every respect be for your
good; whatever may be your intention on this head, you will write
to me.'

"And the said Warren Hastings submits, that it was no part of his
duty as Governor-General to interfere with the said Vizier on
behalf of the said Mirza, or to obtain from the said Vizier any
specific assurances on the subject."

Continuation of the 17th article of the charge:--

"That, in order to avoid famine at home, another of the said
Nabob's brothers, by name Mirza Jungli, was under the necessity of
flying from his native country, and did seek protection from a
certain Mahometan lord called Mirza Shuffee Khan, then
prime-minister of the Mogul, from whom he did go to the camp of the
Mahratta chief Mahdajee Sindia, where he did solicit and obtain a
military command, together with a grant of lands, or jaghire, for
the subsistence of himself, his family, and followers; but wishing
again to be received under the protection of the British
government, the said Mirza Jungli, in 1783, did apply to the said
Resident Bristow, through David Anderson, Esquire, then on an
embassy in the camp of the said Sindia; and in consequence of such
application, the said Bristow, sensible of the disgrace which the
exile of the said Mirza Jungli reflected both on the said Nabob of
Oude and the British nation, did negotiate with the said Nabob and
his ministers for the return of the said Mirza Jungli, and for the
settlement and regular payment of some proper allowance for the
maintenance of the said Mirza Jungli; but the allowance required
was ultimately refused; and although the whole of the transactions
aforesaid were duly represented to the said Warren Hastings by the
said Anderson and by the said Bristow, and although he had himself
received, so early as the 23d of August, 1782, a letter from the
Vizier, grievously complaining of the cruel and extortious demands
made upon him by the said Warren Hastings, in which letter he did
expressly mention the flight of his brothers, and the distresses of
the women of his late father, who he said were all as his mothers,
and that his said brothers, from the resumption of their jaghires,
were reduced to great affliction and distress, and he did attribute
the said flight of some of his brethren, and the distresses of the