Rights of Fyzoola Khân, under the Treaty of Guarantee of the Treaty of Lall-Dang p. 468. Consequences of the Treaty of Chunar p. 499. Pecuniary Commutation of the stipulated ΤΗΛ I. 'HAT the reigning Nabob of Oude, commonly called Asoph ul Dowla (son and successor to Shuja ul Dowla), by taking into or continuing in his pay certain bodies of regular British troops, and by having afterwards admitted the British Resident at his court into the management of all his affairs, foreign and domestick, and particularly into the administration of his finances, did gradually become, in substance and effect, as well as in ge-♦ neral repute and estimation, a dependent on, or vassal of, the East-India Company; and was, and is, so much under the control of the GovernourGeneral and Council of Bengal, that, in the opinion of all the Native Powers, the English name VOL. XII. + and and character is concerned in every act of his Government. II. That Warren Hastings, Esquire, contrary to law, and to his duty, and in disobedience to the orders of the East-India Company, arrogating to himself the nomination of the Resident at the Court of Oude, as his particular agent and representative, and rejecting the Resident appointed by the Company, and obtruding upon them a person of his own choice, did from that time render himself in a particular manner responsible for the good government of the provinces composing the dominions of the Nabob of Oude. III. That the provinces aforesaid, having been, at the time of their first connexion with the Company, in an improved and flourishing condition, and yielding a revenue of more than three millions of pounds sterling, or thereabouts, did soon after. that period begin sensibly to decline; and the subsidy of the British troops stationed in that province, as well as other sums of money due to the. Company by treaty, ran considerably in arrear; although the prince of the country, during the time these arrears accrued, was otherwise in distress, and had been obliged to reduce all his establish ments. IV. That IV. That the prince aforesaid, or Nabob of Oude, did, in humble and submissive terms, supplicate the said Warren Hastings to be relieved from a body of troops, whose licentious behaviour he complained of, and who were stationed in his country without any obligation by treaty to maintain them: pleading the failure of harvest, and the prevalence of famine in his country;-a compliance with which request, by the said Warren Hastings, was refused in unbecoming, offensive, and insulting language. V. That the said Nabob, labouring under the aforesaid and other burthens, and being continually urged for payment, was advised to extort, and did extort, from his mother and grandmother, under the pretext of loans (and sometimes without that appearance), various great sums of money, amounting in the whole to £.630,000 sterling, or thereabouts; alleging in excuse the rigorous demands of the East-India Company, for whose use the said extorted money had been demanded, and to which a considerable part of it had been applied. VI. That the two female parents of the Nabob aforesaid were among the women of the greatest rank, family, and distinction in Asia; and were left by the deceased Nabob, the son of the one, and the husband of the other, in charge of certain considerable part of his treasures in money, and other valuable moveables, as well as certain landed estates, called Jaghires, in order to the support of their own dignity, and the honourable maintenance of his women, and a numerous offspring, and their dependents; the said family amounting in the whole to two thousand persons, who were by the said Nabob, at his death, recommended in a particular manner to the care and protection of the said Warren Hastings. VII. That on the demand of the Nabob of Oude on his parents for the last of the sums, which completed the six hundred and thirty thousand pounds aforesaid, they the said parents did positively refuse to pay any part of the same to their son for the use of the Company, until he should agree to certain terms to be stipulated in a regular treaty; and, among other particulars, to secure them in. the remainder of their possessions, and also on no account or pretence to make any further demands. or claims on them; and, well knowing from whence all his claims and exactions had arisen, they demanded that the said treaty, or family-compact, should be guarantied by the GovernourGeneral |