XX.  That the purport of certain articles of the said treaty, on the part of the Company, was, that, in consideration of the Nabob’s inability (which inability the preamble of the treaty asserts to have been “repeatedly and urgently represented”) to support the expenses of the temporary brigade, and of three regiments of cavalry, and also of the British officers with their battalions, and of other gentlemen who were then paid by him, the several corps aforesaid, and the other gentlemen, (with the exception of the Resident’s office then on the Nabob’s list, and a regiment of sepoys for the Resident’s guard,) should, after a term of two and a half months, be no longer at his, the Nabob’s, charge:  “the true meaning of this being, that no more troops than one brigade, and the pay and allowances of a regiment of sepoys,” (as aforesaid, to the Resident,) amounting in the whole to 342,000_l._ a year, should be paid by the Nabob; and that no officers, troops, or others, should be put upon the Nabob’s establishment, exclusive of those in the said treaty stipulated.

XXI.  That the said Warren Hastings did defend and justify the said articles, in which the troops aforesaid were to be removed from the Nabob’s establishment, by declaring as follows.  “That the actual disbursements to those troops had fallen upon our own funds, and that we support a body of troops, established solely for the defence of the Nabob’s possessions, at our own expense.  It is true, we charge the Nabob with this expense; but the large balance already due from him shows too justly the little prospect there was of disengaging ourselves from a burden which was daily adding to our distresses and must soon become insupportable, although it were granted that the Nabob’s debt, then suffered to accumulate, might at some future period be liquidated, and that this measure would substantially effect an instant relief to the pecuniary distresses of the Company.”

XXII.  That Nathaniel Middleton, the Resident, did also declare that he would at all times testify, “that, upon the plan of the foregoing years, the receipts from the Nabob were only a deception, and not an advantage, but an injury to the Company,” and “that a remission to the Nabob of this insufferable burden was a profit to the Company.”  And the said Hastings did assert that the force of the Company was not lessened by withdrawing the temporary troops; although, when it suited the purpose of the said Hastings, in denying just relief to the distresses of the said Nabob of Oude, he had not scrupled to assert the direct contrary of the positions by him maintained in justification of the treaty of Chunar,—­having in his minute aforesaid, of the 15th of December, 1779, asserted, “that these troops” (the troops maintained by the Nabob of Oude) “had no separate or distinct existence, and may be properly said to consist of our whole military establishment, with the exception only of our European infantry, and that they could not be withdrawn, without imposing on the Company the additional burden of their expense, or disbanding nine battalions of disciplined sepoys and three regiments of horse.”