“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 Lucknow, that he is not bound by treaty to maintain a stationary force for the service of the Vizier, but to supply an aid of two or three thousand 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 Khan, 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 Khan, and to which specifically the denial of Fyzoola Khan must be understood to apply.

That the said Palmer did not hint any doubt of the deficiency affirmed by Fyzoola Khan 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 relinquished (in a private agreement) by the Vizier.”

That, although the said Palmer did suppose the number of Rohillas (employed “in ordinary occupations) in Rampoor alone to exceed that limited by the treaty for his [Fyzoola Khan’s] service,” yet the said Palmer did by no means imply that the Nabob Fyzoola Khan 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 Khan, 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 Khan] 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 possession of the advantages which they at present enjoy.”