Articles of Charge of High Crimes, &c. continued IV. Princesses of Oude Letters, from her Excellency the Bhow Begum to Mr. Bristow, Resident at the Vizier's Court;— from Colonel Hannay to Jewar Ally Cawn and Bahar Ally Cawn:-Address from Colonel Hannay to the Begum;-from Mr. Gordon to the Begum :-Letter to Mohammed Jewar Ally Cawn and Bahar Ally Cawn, from Mr. Gor- don-from Colonel Hannay to Jewar Ally ARTICLES OF CHARGE against WARREN HASTINGS, Esq. IV. PRINCESSES OF OUDE: I. THAT 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 general 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 B 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 |