country might be spared, and employed elsewhere, and that the people would return to their villages with their cattle and effects, and of course government have some security for the revenue, whereas at present they have none.”  And the representation containing that prudent and temperate counsel, given by a military man of undoubted information and perfect experience in the local circumstances of the country, was transmitted by the Resident, Bristow, to the said Warren Hastings, who did wilfully and criminally omit to order any relief to the said Rajah in conformity to the general sense and wishes of the inhabitants, a compliance with whose so reasonable an expectation his duty in restoring the tranquillity of the country and in retrieving the honor of the English government did absolutely require; but instead of making such provision, a price was set upon his head, and several bodies of British troops being employed to pursue him, after many skirmishes and much bloodshed and mutual waste of the country, the said Rajah, honored and respected by the natives, was hunted down, and at length killed in a thicket.

FOOTNOTES: 

[59] See Hastings’s Letter.

[60] Sic orig.

[61] 26th Dec., 1781.

[62] 13th Jan., 1782.

[63] 18th Jan., 1782.

[64] Letter from Mr. Middleton, 2d Feb., 1782.

[65] Lucknow, 22d July, 1782.

[66] Major Gilpin’s Letter, 15th June, 1782.

[67] Mr. Johnson’s letter, 9th July, 1782.

[68] Ibid., 4th July, 1782.

[69] Major Gilpin’s Letter, 6th July, 1782.

[70] Mr. Johnson’s Letter, 22d July, 1782.

[71] Major Gilpin’s Letters, 16th June and 15th Sept., 1782.

[72] Major Gilpin’s letter, 15th Sept., 1782.

[73] Major Gilpin’s letter, 19th Oct., 1782.

[74] Major Gilpin’s Letter, 18 Nov., 1782.

[75] Mr. Bristow’s Letter, 2d Dec., 1782.

[76] Mr. Bristow’s Letter, 12 Dec., 1782.

[77] Shoka from the Vizier to Hyder Beg Khan, 2d Ramsur, 1197

[78] Bristow’s Letter, 29th Jan., 1784, with inclosures.

END OF VOL.  VIII.