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 Khan's cavalry to act with General Goddard, and on his (Fyzoola Khan's) evading it, that a sum of money was demanded."

V.

That in the months of February, March, and April, the resident Middleton did repeatedly propose the resumption of Fyzoola Khan's jaghire, agreeably to the treaty of Chunar; and that, driven to extremity (as the said Hastings supposes) by the public menaces and denunciations of the resident and minister," Hyder Beg Khan, a creature of the said Hastings (and both the minister and resident acting professedly on and under the treaty of Chunar) "the Nabob Fyzoola Khan made such preparations, and such a disposition of his family and wealth, as evidently manifested either an intended or as 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 Khan, but of what import cannot be ascertained, the said Hastings in his public instructions having inserted only the name of Fyzoola Khan, as a mere reference (according to the explanation of the said Hastings) to what he had verbally communicated to the said 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 Khan'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 the resident, both of them directly appointed and supported by the said Hastings) did make of Fyzoola Khan 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 (the vizier) had only a right to demand an occasional aid to join his army in the field, or in garrison during a war. But the said new demand being evaded, or rather refused, agreeably to the fair construction of the treaty by the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, the matter was for the present dropped.

IX.

That in the letter in which the resident Middleton did mention "what he calls the fray" aforesaid, the said Middleton did again apply for the resumption of the jaghire of Rampore; and, that the objections against the measure being now removed (by the separate peace with Scindia) he desired to know if the board "would give assurances of their support to the vizier, in case, which (says the resident) I think very probable, his [the vizier's] own strength should be found unequal to the undertaking,

X.

That although the said Warren Hastings did make the foregoing application a new charge against the resi

dent Middleton, yet the said Hastings did only criminate the said Middleton for a proposal, tending" at such a crisis to increase the number of our enemies ;" and did in no degree, either in his articles of charge, or in his accompanying minutes, express any disapprobation whatever of the principle; that in truth the whole proceedings of the said resident were the natural result of the treaty of Chu nar; that the proceedings were, from time to time, communicated to the said Hastings. That as he no where charges any disobedience of orders on Mr. Middleton with respect to Fyzoola Khan, it may be justly inferred that the said Hastings did not interfere to check the proceedings of the said Middleton on that subject; and that by such criminal neglect the said Hastings did make the guilt of the said Middleton, whatever it might be, his own.

PECUNIARY COMMUTATION OF THE

STIPULATED AID.

1.

THAT on the charges, and for the mis demeanors above specified, together with divers other accusations, the governor general, Warren Hastings, in September, 1782, did remove the aforesaid Middleton from his office of resident at Oude, and did appoint thereto John Bristow, Esquire, whom he had twice before, without cause, recalled from the same; and that about the same time the said Hastings did believe the mind of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan to be so irritated in consequence of the above recited conduct of the late resident, Middleton, and of his (the said Hastings') own criminal neglect, that he, the said Hastings, found it necessary to write to Fyzoola Khan, assuring him "of the favourable disposition of the government towards him, while he shall not have forfeited it by any improper conduct." But that the said assurances of the governor general did not tend, as soon after appeared, to raise much confidence in the nabob, over whom a public instrument of the same Hastings was still holding the terrors of a deprivation of his jaghire, and an exile " among his other faithless brethren across the Ganges.'

II.

That on the subject of Fyzoola Khan, the said Hastings, in his instructions to the new resident, Bristow, did leave him to be guided by his own discretion; but (he adds) "be careful to prevent the vizier's affairs from being involved with new difficulties, while he has already so many to oppress him;" thereby plainly hinting at some more decisive measures, whenever the vizier should be less oppressed with difficulties.

III.

That the resident, Bristow, after acquainting the go
vernor general with his intentions, did, under the said in-
structions, renew the aforesaid claim for a sum of money,
but with much caution and circumspection, distantly
sounding Allif Khan, the vackeel (or envoy) of Fyzoola
Khan, at the court of the vizier; that "Allif Khan wrote
to his master on the subject, and in answer he was di-
rected not to agree to the granting of any pecuniary
aid."

IV.

That the resident, Bristow, did then openly depute
Major Palmer aforesaid, with the concurrence of the vi-
zier, and the approbation of the governor general, to the
Nabob Fyzoola Khan, at Rampore; and that the said
Palmer was to "endeavour to convince the nabob that
all doubts of his attachment to the vizier are ceased; and
whatever claims may be made on him are founded upon
the basis of his interest and advantage, and a plan of
establishing his right to the possession of his jaghire.

That the sudden ceasing of the said doubts, without
any inquiry of the slightest kind, doth warrant a strong
presumption of the resident's conviction that they never
really existed, but were artfully feigned, as a pretence
for some harsh interposition; and that the indecent
mockery of establishing, as a matter of favour for a pe-
cuniary consideration, rights which were never impeached
but by the treaty of Chunar (an instrument recorded by
Warren Hastings himself to be founded on falsehood
and injustice) doth powerfully prove the true purpose
and object of all the duplicity, deceit, and double
dealing, with which that treaty was projected and exe-
cuted.

V.

That the said Palmer was instructed by the resident
Bristow, with the subsequent approbation of the governor
general, "to obtain from Fyzoola Khan an annual tri-
bute;" to which the resident adds "If you can procure
from him, over and above this, a peskcush (or fine) of at
reast five lacks, it would be rendering an essential service