the mother from the late Rajah,
Bulwant Sing, to the government of Benares; and on account or pretence
of his youth and inexperience (the said Mehip Narrain not being above
twenty years old) did appoint his father, Durbege Sing, to act as his
representative or administrator of his affairs; but did give a
controlling authority to the British Resident over both, notwithstanding
his declarations before mentioned of the mischiefs likely to happen to
the said country from the establishment of a Resident, and his opinion
since declared in a letter to the Court of Directors, dated from this
very place (Benares) the 1st of October, 1784, to the same or stronger
effect, in case "agents are sent into the country, and armed with
authority for the purposes of vengeance and corruption,--_for to no
other will they be applied_."

That the said Warren Hastings did, by the same usurped authority,
entirely set aside all the agreements made between the late Rajah and
the Company (which were real agreements with the state of Benares, in
the person of the lord or prince thereof, and his heirs); and without
any form of trial, inquisition, or other legal process, for forfeiture
of the privileges of the people to be governed by magistrates of their
own, and according to their natural laws, customs, and usages, did,
contrary to the said agreement, separate the mint and the criminal
justice from the said government, and did vest the mint in the British
Resident, and the criminal justice in a Mahomedan native of his own
appointment; and did enhance the tribute to be paid from the province,
from two hundred and fifty thousand pounds annually, limited by treaty,
or thereabouts, to three hundred and thirty thousand pounds for the
first year, and to four hundred thousand for every year after; and did
compel the administrator aforesaid (father to the Rajah) to agree to the
same; and did, by the same usurped authority, illegally impose, and
cause to be levied, sundry injudicious and oppressive duties on goods
and merchandise, which did greatly impair the trade of the province, and
threaten the utter ruin thereof; and did charge several pensions on the
said revenues, of his own mere authority; and did send and keep up
various bodies of the Company's troops in the said country; and did
perform sundry other acts with regard to the said territory, in total
subversion of the rights of the sovereign and the people, and in
violation of the treaties and agreem