XXXII.  That the said Hastings, in order to add to the confusion, perplexity, and distress of the Nabob’s affairs, did send to his court (in which he had already a Resident and Assistant Resident) two secret agents, Major Palmer and Major Davy, and did instruct Major Palmer to make a variety of new claims, one of a loan to the Company of 600,000_l._ sterling, although he well knew the Nabob was himself heavily in arrear to the Company, and was utterly unable to discharge the same, as well as in arrear to his own troops, and to many individuals, and that he borrowed (when he could at all borrow) at an interest of near thirty per cent.  To this demand was added a new bribe, or unlawful present, to himself, to the amount of 100,000_l._ sterling, which he did not refuse as unlawful and of evil example, but as indelicate in the Nabob’s present situation,—­and did, as if the same was his own property, presume to dispose of it, and to desire the transfer of it, as of his own bounty, to the Company, his masters.  To this second demand he, the said Hastings, added a third demand of 120,000_l._ sterling, for four additional regiments on the Nabob’s list, after he had solemnly engaged to take off the ten with which it had been burdened:  the whole of the claims through his private agent aforesaid making the sum of 820,000_l._ sterling.

XXXIII.  That the demands, claims, &c., made by the said Warren Hastings upon the government of Oude in that year amounted to the enormous sum of 2,530,000_l._ sterling; which joined to the arrears to troops, and some internal failures, amounting to 255,000_l._ sterling more, the whole charge arose to 2,785,000_l._ sterling, which was considerably more than double the net produce of the Nabob’s revenue,—­the same only amounting to 1,450,000_l._ “nominal revenue, never completely realized.”

XXXIV.  That, towards providing for these extravagant demands, he, the said Warren Hastings, did direct and authorize another breach of the public faith given in the treaty of Chunar.  For whereas, by the second article of the treaty aforesaid, it was left to the Nabob’s discretion whether or not he should resume the landed estates, called jaghires, within his dominions, and notwithstanding the said Hastings, in defence of the said article, did declare that the Nabob should be left to the exercise of his own authority and pleasure respecting them, yet he, the said Hastings, did authorize a violent compulsion to be used towards the said Nabob for accomplishing an universal confiscation of that species of landed property; and in so doing he did also compel the Nabob to break his faith with all the landholders of that description, not only in violating the assurance of his own original grants, but his assurance recently given, when, being pressed by the Company, he, the Nabob, had made a temporary seizure of the profits of the lands aforesaid, in the manner of a compulsory loan, for the repayment of which he gave his bonds and obligations; and although he