representation in other like cases of unwitnessed conferences; and in the present instance (as far as it extends) the said Hastings doth prove himself to have given an account both of his actions and motives, by his own confession untrue, for the purpose of deceiving his employers, which is an high crime and misdemeanor in a servant of so great trust.

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VI.

That the said third article of the treaty of Chunar, as it thus stands explained by the said Hastings himself, doth on the whole appear designed to hold the protection of the Company in suspense; that it acknowledges all right of interference to cease, but leaves it to our discretion to determine when it will suit our conveniency to give the Vizier the liberty of acting on the principles by us already admitted that it is dexterously constructed to balance the desires of one man, rapacious and profuse, against the fears of another, described as " of extreme pusillanimity, and wealthy:" but that, whatever may have been the secret objects of the artifice and intrigue confessed to form its very essence, it must on the very face of it necessarily implicate the Company in a breach of faith, whichever might be the event, as they must equally break their faith, either by withdrawing their guarantee unjustly, or by continuing that guarantee in contradiction to this treaty of Chunar; that it thus tends to hold out to India, and

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and to the whole world, that the publick principle of the English Government is a deliberate system of injustice, joined with falsehood; of impolicy, of bad faith, and treachery; and that the said article is therefore in the highest degree derogatory to the honour, and injurious to the interests, of this nation.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREATY
OF CHUNAR.

I.

THAT in consequence of the treaty of Chunar, the Governour-General, Warren Hastings, did send official instructions, respecting the various articles of the said treaty, to the said Resident Middleton; and that, in a postscript, the said Hastings did forbid the resumption of the Nabob Fyzoola Khân's Jaghire, "until circumstances may render it more

expedient, and easy to be attempted, than the present more material pursuits of Government make it appear;" thereby intimating a positive limitation of the indefinite term in the explanatory Minute above recited; and confining the suspension of the article to the pressure of war.

II.

That soon after the date of the said instructions, and within two months of the signature of the treaty of Chunar, the said Hastings did cause Sir Elijah Impey, Knight, His Majesty's Chief Justice at Fort-William, to discredit the justice of the Crown of Great Britain by making him the channel of unwarrantable communication; and did, through the said Sir Elijah, signify to the Resident Middleton his (the said Hastings's) "approbation of a subsidy from Fyzoola Khân."

III.

That the Resident, in answer, represents the proper equivalent for 2,000 horse, and 1,000 foot (the forces offered to Mr. Johnson by Fyzoola Khân) to be twelve lacks, or £. 120,000 sterling, and upwards, each year; which the said Resident supposes is considerably beyond what he (Fyzoola Khân) will voluntarily pay: “however, if it is your "wish, that the claim should be made, I am ready "to take it up, and you may be assured nothing "in my power shall be left undone to carry it through."

IV.

That the reply of the said Hastings doth not appear; but that it does appear on record, that

a negotiation (Mr. Johnson's) was begun for Fyzoola Khân's cavalry to act with General 66 Goddard,

"Goddard, and, on his (Fyzoola Khân's) evading "it, that a sum of money was demanded."

That in the months of February, March, and April, the Resident Middleton did repeatedly propose the resumption of Fyzoola Khân's Jaghire, agreeably to the treaty of Chunar; and that driven to extremity (as the said Hastings supposes)" by "the publick menaces and denunciations of the "Resident and minister," Hyder Beg Khân, a creature of the said Hastings (and both the minister and Resident acting professedly on and under the treaty of Chunar), "the Nabob Fyzoola Khân "made such preparations, and such a disposition "of his family and wealth, as evidently manifested "either an intended or an expected rupture."

VI.

That on the 6th of May the said Hastings did send his confidential agent and friend, Major Palmer, on a private commission to Lucknow; and that the said Palmer was charged with secret instructions relative to Fyzoola Khân, but of what import cannot be ascertained, the said Hastings in his publick instructions having inserted only the name of Fyzoola Khân, as a mere reference (according to the explanation of the said Hastings) to what he had verbally communicated to the said Palmer;

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Palmer; and that the said Hastings was thereby guilty of a criminal concealment.

VII.

That some time about the month of August an engagement happened between a body of Fyzoola Khân's cavalry and a part of the Vizier's army, in which the latter were beaten, and their guns taken; that the Resident Middleton did represent the same but as a slight and accidental affray that it was acknowledged the troops of the Vizier were the aggressors; that it did appear to the Board, and to the said Hastings himself, an affair of more considerable magnitude, and that they did make the concealment thereof an article of charge against the Resident Middleton, though the said Resident did in truth acquaint them with the same, but in a cursory manner.

VIII..

That, immediately after the said "fray" at Daranagur, the Vizier (who was "but a cipher in the "hands" of the minister and Resident, both of them directly appointed and supported by the said Hastings) did make of Fyzoola Khân a new demand, equally contrary to the true intent and meaning of the treaty, as his former requisitions; which new demand was for the detachment in garrison at Daranagur to be cantoned as a stationary force at Lucknow, the capital of the Vizier; whereas he

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