upon the circumstance that thirteen directors were of opinion he ought
to be recalled in 1783, though ten of the same body, and 428
proprietors, most strenuously supported him. Many of the thirteen who
voted his recall in 1783 were in the Direction when he received a
unanimous vote of thanks for his long, faithful, and important
services.]

[Footnote 21: Monsieur Law, governor of Pondicherry, in a memoir
addressed to the French Minister, says, "In an evil hour for France
the English East India Company appointed Mr. Hastings governor of
Bengal." And Monsieur Suffrien, in a letter to Hastings, relative to
his treatment of English prisoners, says that he wishes to explain the
motives of his conduct to one "of whom all the world speaks well,"-and
surely a compliment of this kind was never paid with more justice to
any individual than to Warren Hastings. Throughout India and Europe,
the character of no man was more generally known or more universally
respected.]



AN IMITATION OF HORACE

BOOK II., ODE 16.

WRITTEN BY WARREN HASTINGS
ON HIS PASSAGE FROM BENGAL TO ENGLAND IN 1785.
ADDRESSED TO JOHN SHORE, ESQ.


For ease the harass'd seaman prays,