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as well in India as in Europe," "The Gover"nour-General and Council are required and "directed to pay due obedience to all such orders

as they shall receive from the Court of Direc"tors of the said United Company, and to cor"respond from time to time, and constantly and diligently transmit to the said Court an exact "particular of all advices or intelligence, and of "all transactions and matters whatsoever, that "shall come to their knowledge, relating to the (6 government, commerce, revenues, or interest of "the said United Company."

That, in consequence of the above-recited Act, the Court of Directors, in their General Instructions of the 29th March 1774 to the GovernourGeneral and Council, did direct," that the cor"respondence with the Princes or Country Powers "in India should be carried on through the Gover"nour-General only; but that all letters to be sent

by him should be first approved in Council; and "that he should lay before the Council, at their "next meeting, all letters received by him in the eC course of such correspondence for their infor "mation."

And the Governour-General and Council were therein further ordered, "That in transacting the

business of their department they should enter "with the utmost perspicuity and exactness all "their proceedings whatsoever; and all dissents, "if such should at any time be made by an "memt

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"member of their Board, together with all letters sent or received in the course of their corre"spondence; and that broken sets of such proceedings, to the latest period possible, be "transmitted to them (the Court of Directors); a complete set at the end of every year, and a duplicate by the next conveyance."

That in defiance of the said orders, and in breach of the above-recited Act of Parliament, the said Warren Hastings has, in sundry instances, concealed from his Council the correspondence carried on between him and the Princes or Country Powers in India, and neglected to communicate the advices and intelligence be from time to time received from the British Residents at the different Courts in India to the other members of the Government; and without their knowledge, counsel, or participation, has dispatched orders on matters of the utmost consequence to the interests of the Company.

That, moreover, the said Warren Hastings, for the purpose of covering his own improper and dangerous practices from his employers, has withheld from the Court of Directors, upon sundry occasions, copies of the proceedings had, and the correspondence carried on by him in his official capacity, as Governour-General, whereby the Court of Directors have been kept in ignorance of matters, which it highly imported them to know, and

the

the affairs of the Company have been exposed to much inconvenience and injury.

That in all such concealments and acts done or ordered without the consent and authority of the Supreme Council, the said Warren Hastings has been guily of high crimes and misdemeanors.

XXII. RIGHTS OF FYZOOLA KHAN, &c.

BEFORE THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG.

I.

THAT the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, who now holds of the Vizier the territory of Rampore, Shawabad, and certain other districts dependent thereon, in the country of the Rohillas, is the second son of a prince, renowned in the history of Hindostan under the naine of Ali Mohammed Khân, some time sovereign of all that part of Rohilcund, which is particularly distinguished by the appellation of the Kutteehr.

II.

That after the death of Ali Mohammed aforesaid, as Fyzoola Khân, together with his elder brother, was then a prisoner of war at a place called

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called Herat," the Rohilla chiefs took possession "of the ancient estates" of the captive princes; and the Nabob, Fyzoola Khân, was from necessity compelled to wave his hereditary rights for the inconsiderable districts of Rampore and Shawabad, then estimated to produce from six to eight lacks of annual revenue.

III.

That in 1774, on the invasion of Rohilcund by the united armies of the Vizier Sujah ul Dowlah and the Company, the Nabob, Fyzoola Khân, "with some of his people, was present at the "decisive battle of St. George," where Hafiz Rhanet, the great leader of the Rohillas, and many others of their principal chiefs were slain; but, escaping from the slaughter, Fyzoola Khân "made his retreat good towards the mountains, " with all his treasure.' He there collected the scattered remains of his countrymen; and as he was the eldest surviving son of Ali Mohammed Khân, as too the most powerful obstacle to his pretensions was now removed by the death of Hafiz, he seems at length to have been generally acknowledged by his natural subjects the undoubted heir of his father's authority.

IV.

That," regarding the sacred sincerity and friendship of the English, whose goodness and

"celebrity is every where known, who dispossess "no one," the Nabob Fyzoola Khân made early overtures for peace to Colonel Alexander Champion, commander-in-chief of the Company's forces in Bengal: that he did propose to the said Colonel Alexander Champion, in three letters, received on the 14th, 24th, and 27th of May, to put himself under the protection either of the Company or of the Vizier, through the mediation, and with the guarantee, of the Company; and that he did offer "whatever was conferred upon him, to pay

as much without damage or deficiency, as any "other person would agree to do;" stating at the same time his condition and pretensions hereinbefore recited, as facts "evident as the sun;" and appealing, in a forcible and awful manner, to the generosity and magnanimity of this nation, “ by "whose means he hoped in God, that he should "receive justice;" and as "the person, who de

signed the war, was no more;" as "in that he

was himself guiltless ;" and, as "he had never "acted in such a manner as for the Vizier to "have taken hatred to his heart against him; that "he might be reinstated in his ancient posses

That on the last of the three dates above mentioned, that is to say, on the 27th of May, the

Nabob