fused to listen to the entreaties of a British
commander-in-chief in their favor; and the said women of high rank were
exposed not only to the vilest personal indignities, but even to
absolute want: and these transactions being by Colonel Champion
communicated to the said Warren Hastings, instead of commendations for
his intelligence, and orders to redress the said evils, and to prevent
the like in future, by means which were suggested, and which appear to
have been proper and feasible, he received a reprimand from the said
Warren Hastings, who declared that we had no authority to control the
conduct of the Vizier in the treatment of his subjects; and that Colonel
Champion desisted from making further representations on this subject to
the said Warren Hastings, being apprehensive of having already run some
risk of displeasing by perhaps a too free communication of sentiments.
That, in consequence of the said proceedings, not only the eminent
families of the chiefs of the Rohilla nation were either cut off or
banished, and their wives and offspring reduced to utter ruin, but the
country itself, heretofore distinguished above all others for the extent
of its cultivation as a _garden_, not having _one spot_ in it of
_uncultivated_ ground, and from being _in the most flourishing state
that a country could be_, was by the inhuman mode of carrying on the
war, and the ill government during the consequent usurpation, reduced to
a state of great decay and depopulation, in which it still remains.

That the East India Company, having had reason to conceive, that, for
the purpose of concealing corrupt transactions, their servants in India
had made unfair, mutilated, and garbled communications of
correspondence, and sometimes had wholly withheld the same, made an
order in their letter of the 23d of March, 1770, in the following
tenor:--"The Governor singly shall correspond with the country powers;
but _all_ letters, before they shall be by him sent, must be
communicated to the other members of the Select Committee, and receive
their approbation; and also _all_ letters _whatsoever_ which may be
received by the Governor, in answer to or in course of correspondence,
shall likewise be laid before the said Select Committee for their
information and consideration"; and that in their instructions to their
Governor-General and Council, dated 30th March, 1774, they did repeat
their orders to the same purpose and effect.

That the said Warre