LXXVIII. That the said Warren Hastings, who did show an indecent distrust of the Company's faith, did endeavor, before that time, at other times, namely, in his instructions to his secret agent, Major Palmer, dated the 6th of May, 1782, to limit the confidence to be reposed in the British government to the duration of his own power, in the following words in the fifth article. "It is very much my desire to impress the Nabob with a _thorough_ confidence in the faith and justice of our government,--that is to say, _in my own_, while I am at the head of it: I cannot be answerable for the acts of others independent of me." LXXIX. That the said Warren Hastings did, in his letter, dated Benares, the 1st of October, 1784, to the Court of Directors, write, "that, if they [the Directors] manifested no _symptoms_ of an (1.) _intended_ interference, the objects of his engagements will be obtained; (2.) but if a different policy shall be adopted,--if new agents are sent into the country, and armed with authority for the purposes of vengeance or corruption (_for to no other will they be applied_),--if new demands are made on the Nabob Vizier, (4.) and accounts overcharged on one side, with a wide latitude taken on the other, to swell his debt beyond the means of payment,--(5.) if political dangers are portended, to ground on them the plea of burdening his country with unnecessary defences and enormous subsidies,--(6.) or if, even abstaining from _direct encroachment on the Nabob's rights_, your government shall show but _a degree of personal kindness to the partisans_ of the late usurpation, or by any constructive indication of partiality and dissatisfaction _furnish_ grounds for the _expectation_ of an _approaching_ change of system,--I am sorry to say, that all my labors will prove abortive."