III.  That the Resident, Bristow, after acquainting the Governor-General with his intentions, did under the said instructions renew the aforesaid claim for a sum of money, but with much caution and circumspection, distantly sounding Allif Khan, the vakeel (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 directed 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 Vizier, and the approbation of the Governor-General, to the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, at Rampoor; and that the said Palmer was to “endeavor 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 favor, for a pecuniary 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 executed.

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 tribute”; to which the Resident adds,—­“If you can procure from him, over and above this, a peshcush [or fine] of at least five lacs, it would be rendering an essential service to the Vizier, and add to the confidence his Excellency would hereafter repose in the attachment of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan.”  And that the said Governor-General, Hastings, did give the following extraordinary ground of calculation, as the basis of the said Palmer’s negotiation for the annual tribute aforesaid.

“It was certainly understood, at the time the treaty was concluded, (of which this stipulation was a part,) that it applied solely to cavalry:  as the Nabob Vizier, possessing the service of our forces, could not possibly require infantry, and least of all such infantry as Fyzoola Khan could furnish; and a single horseman included in the aid which Fyzoola Khan might furnish would prove a literal compliance with the said stipulation.  The number, therefore, of horse implied by it ought at least to be ascertained:  we will suppose five thousand, and, allowing the exigency for their attendance to exist only in the proportion of one year in five, reduce the demand to one thousand for the computation of the subsidy, which, at the rate of fifty rupees per man, will amount to fifty thousand per mensem.  This may serve for the basis of this article in the negotiation upon it.”