"the demand should not be relinquished by you, first to proceed to Lucknow, where he proposes having an interview with the Vizier and Resident; if he should not be able to obtain his own terms for a future possession of his Jaghire, he will set off for Calcutta in order to pray for justice from "the Honourable the Governour-General. He "observes, it is the custom of the Honourable

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Company, when they deprive a Chief of his country, to grant him some allowance. This he expects from Mr. Hastings's bounty; but if he "should be disappointed, he will certainly set off upon a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, and renounce the cares of the world."

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"He directs his Vakeel to ascertain whether the

English intend to deprive him of his country; "for if they do, he is ready to surrender it, upon receiving an order from the Resident."

XI.

That after much negotiation the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, "being fully sensible, that an engagement "to furnish military aid, however clearly the con"ditions might be stated, must be a source of per

petual misunderstanding and inconveniencies," did at length agree with Major Palmer to give fifteen lacks, or £. 150,000 and upwards, by four instalments, that he might be exempted from all future claims of military service: that the said Palmer represents

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represents it to be his belief, "that no person, "not known to possess your (the said Hastings's) confidence and support in the degree, that I am

supposed to do, would have obtained nearly so "good terms;" but from what motive" terms so "good" were granted, and how the confidence and support of the said Hastings did truly operate on the mind of Fyzoola Khân, doth appear to be better explained by another passage in the same letter, where the said Palmer congratulates himself on the satisfaction, which he gave to Fyzoola Khán in the conduct of this negotiation, as he spent a month in order to effect "by argument and per"suasion, what he could have obtained in an hour by threats and compulsions.”

FULL VINDICATION of FYZOOLA KHÂN

BY MAJOR PALMER AND MR. HASTINGS

I.

THAT in the course of the said negotiation for establishing the rights of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan Major Palmer aforesaid did communicate to the Resident Bristow, and through the said Resident to the Council-General of Bengal, the full and direct denial of the Nabob Fyzoola Khân to all

and

and every of the charges made or pretended to be made against him, as follows:

Fyzoola Khan persists in denying the infringe"ment on his part of any one article in the treaty,

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or the neglect of any obligation, which it imposed upon him.

"He does not admit of the improvements re"ported to be made in his Jaghire; and even asserts, "that the collections this year will fall short of "the original Jumma (or estimate) by reason of "the long drought.

"He denies having exceeded the limited number 。 of Rohillas in his service;

"And having refused the required aid of "cavalry, made by Johnson, to act with General "Goddard.

"He observes, respecting the charge of evading "the Vizier's requisition for the cavalry, lately "stationed at Daranagur, to be stationed at Luck" now, that he is not bound by treaty to maintain

a stationary force for the service of the Vizier, "but to supply an aid of 2,000 or 3,000 troops in "time of war.

Lastly, he asserts, that so far from encouraging the Ryots (or peasants) of the Vizier to "settle in his Jaghire, it has been his constant "practice to deliver them up to the Aumil of Rohilcund, whenever he could discover them."

II.

That, in giving his opinions on the aforesaid denials of the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, the said Palmer did not controvert any one of the constructions of the treaty advanced by the said Nabob.

That although the said Palmer, "from general appearances as well as universal report, did not "doubt, that the Jumma of the Jaghire is greatly "increased," yet he the said Palmer did not intimate, that it was increased in any degree near the amount reported, as it was drawn out in a regular estimate, transmitted to the said Palmer expressly for the purposes of his negotiation; which was of course by him produced to the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, and to which specifically the denial of Fyzoola Khân must be understood to apply.

That the said Palmer did not hint any doubt of the deficiency affirmed by Fyzoola Khân in the collections for the current year: and,

That if any increase of Jumma did truly exist, whatever it may have been, the said Palmer did acknowledge it "to have been solemnly relin"quished (in a private agreement) by the Vizier."

That although the said Palmer did suppose the number of Rohillas (employed "in ordinary occu"pations) in Rampore alone, to exceed that limited

by the treaty for his (Fyzoola Khân's) service,”

yet

yet the said Palmer did by no means imply, that the Nabob Fyzoola Khân maintained in his service a single man more than was allowed by treaty; and by a particular and minute account of the troops of Fyzoola Khân, transmitted by the Resident Bristow to the said Palmer, the number was stated but at 5,840, probably including officers, who were not understood to be comprehended in the treaty.

That the said Palmer did further admit it "to be "not clearly expressed in the treaty, whether the "restriction included Rohillas of all descriptions ;" but at any rate he adds, "it does not appear, "that their number is formidable; or that he

(Fyzoola Khân) could by any means subsist such "numbers as could cause any serious alarm to the "Vizier; neither is there any appearance of their

entertaining any views beyond the quiet posses"sion of the advantages, which they at present enjoy."

And that in a subsequent letter, in which the said Palmer thought it prudent 66 to vindicate "himself from any possible insinuation, that he

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meant to sacrifice the Vizier's interest," he, the said Palmer, did positively attest the new claim on Fyzoola Khân for the protection of the Vizier's Ryots to be wholly without foundation; as the Nabob Fyzoola Khân "had proved to him (Pal"mer) by producing receipts of various dates, " and

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