Nathaniel Middleton be restored
to the appointment of Resident at that court, subject to the orders and
authority of the Governor-General and Council, conformably to the motion
of the Governor-General."
I will next read to your Lordships the orders of the Directors for his
reinstatement, on the 4th of July, 1777.
"Upon the most careful perusal of your proceedings upon the 2d of
December, 1776, relative to the recall of Mr. Bristow from the court of
the Nabob of Oude, and the appointment of Mr. Nathaniel Middleton to
that station, we must declare our strongest disapprobation of the whole
of that transaction. We observe that the Governor-General's motion for
the recall of Mr. Bristow includes that for the restoration of Mr.
Nathaniel Middleton; but as neither of those measures appear to us
necessary, or even justifiable, they cannot receive our approbation.
With respect to Mr. Bristow, we find no shadow of charge against him. It
appears that he has executed his trust to the entire satisfaction even
of those members of the Council who did not concur in his appointment.
You have unanimously recommended him to our notice; attention to your
recommendation has induced us to afford him marks of our favor, and to
reannex the emoluments affixed by you to his appointment, which had been
discontinued by our order; and as we must be of opinion that a person of
acknowledged abilities, whose conduct has thus gained him the esteem of
his superiors, ought not to be degraded without just cause, we do not
hesitate to interpose in his behalf, and therefore direct that Mr.
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