said Resident] on the requisition of the Vizier communicated through you to him [the said commander], or at your own tingle application.  It is directed that the regiment ordered for the immediate protection of your office and person at Lucknow shall be relieved every three months, and during its stay there shall act solely and exclusively under your orders.”  And it appears in the course of the Company’s correspondence, that the country troops under the Nabob’s sole direction would be ill-disciplined and unserviceable, if not worse, and therefore the said Warren Hastings did order that “no infantry should be kept in his service”; yet it appears that the said Warren Hastings did make an arrangement for a body of native troops wholly out of the control or inspection of the British government, and left a written order in the hands of Major Palmer (one of his agents, who had been continued there, though the Company was not permitted to employ any) to be transmitted to Colonel Cumming as soon as an adequate force shall be provided for the defence of the Nabob’s frontier by detachments from the Nabob’s own battalions,—­the said Colonel Cumming’s forces, whom the others were to supersede and replace, consisting wholly of infantry, and which, being intended for the same service, were probably of the same constitution.

LXXXV.  That the old brigade of British troops, which by treaty was to remain, had been directed, by the instructions of the said Hastings to the Resident Middleton and to the Resident Bristow, “not to be employed at the requisition of the Vizier any otherwise than through the Resident”; and the said direction was properly given,—­it not being fit that British troops should be under the sole direction of foreign independent princes, or of any other than the British government:  yet, notwithstanding the proper and necessary direction aforesaid, he, the said Warren Hastings, hath left the said troops, by his new treaty, without any local control, or even inspection, notwithstanding his powers under the treaty of Chunar, and his own repeated orders, and notwithstanding the mischiefs and dangers which the said Warren Hastings did foresee would result therefrom, if left under the sole direction of the Nabob, and their own discretion, the said Hastings having stipulated with the said Nabob not to exercise any authority, or even influence, secret or avowed, within his dominions.

LXXXVI.  That the crime of the said Warren Hastings, in attempting thus to abandon the British army to the sole discretion of the Nabob of Oude, is exceedingly aggravated by the description given by him severally of the said Nabob of Oude, and of the British army stationed for the defence of his dominions.  In his letters to the Court of Directors, and in his Minutes of Consultation, and particularly in his letter of ——­, immediately on the accession of the Nabob, he did inform the said Court, “that the Nabob had not, by all accounts, the qualities of