"The Rajah is therefore desired to appoint a person to bring those
waste lands into cultivation, in like manner as he has done in
Khereed, with this difference or addition in his instructions,--that
he subjoin in those to the Aband Kar, or manager, of the
re-cultivation of Sekunderpoor, the rates at which he is authorized
to grant pottahs for the various kinds of land; and it is
recommended to him to make these rates even somewhat lower than he
may himself think strictly conformable to justice, reporting the
particulars to the Resident.
"The Rajah is also desired to prepare and transmit a table of
similar rates to the Aband Kar of purgunnah Khereed.
(Signed) "JON^N DUNCAN, _Resident_.
"BENARES, the 12th September, 1788."
Here your Lordships find, in spite of Mr. Hastings himself, in spite of
all the testimonies which he has called, and of all the other
testimonies which he would have called, that his own account of the
matter is confirmed against his own pretended evidence; you find his own
written account confirmed in a manner not to be doubted: and the only
difference between his account and this is, that the people did not fly
from Mr.
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