LXXXIX.  That it appears, after the said Warren Hastings had, on grounds so disgraceful to the British nation and government, agreed to remove forever the British influence and interference from the government of Oude, on account of the disorders in the said government, solely produced by his own criminal acts and criminal connivances, that he did overturn his own settlement as soon as he had made it, and did, after he had abolished the Company’s Residency, as a grievance, wholly violate his own solemn agreement:  for he did, for his private purposes, continue therein his own private agent, Major Palmer, with a number of officers and pensioners, at a charge to the revenues of the country greatly exceeding that of the establishment under Mr. Bristow, which he did represent as frightfully enormous, and which he pretended to remove:  the former amounting to 112,950_l._, the latter only to 64,202_l._

XC.  That his own secret agent, Major Palmer, did receive a salary or allowance, equal to 22,800_l._ a year, out of the distressed province of Oude; and this the said Palmer did declare not to be more than he absolutely did really and bona fide spend, and that he had retrenched considerably “in some of the articles since the expense has been borne by the Vizier, and in every particular he made as little parade and appearance as his station would admit,”—­his station being that of the said Warren Hastings’s private agent.  But if the said large salary must be considered as merely equal to the expenses, large secret emoluments must be presumed to attend it, in order to make it a place advantageous to the holder thereof.  That the said Palmer did apply to the board at Calcutta for a new authority to continue the said establishments,—­he conceiving their continuance, “after the period of the Governor-General’s departure, depended upon the pleasure of the board, and not upon the authority of the Governor-General, under the sanction of which they were established or confirmed.”

XCI.  That the said Warren Hastings, in order to ruin the Resident Bristow, and to justify himself for his former proceedings respecting him, did bring before the board a new charge against him, for having paid a large establishment of offices and pensions to the Company’s servants from the revenues of Oude; and the said Bristow, in making his defence against the charge aforesaid, did plead, that he had found all the allowances on his list established before his last appointment to the Residency,—­that they had grown to that excess in the interval between his first removal by the said Warren Hastings and his reappointment; and having adduced many reasons to make it highly probable that the said Hastings was perfectly well acquainted with it, and did approve of the expensive establishments which he, the said Bristow, simply had paid, but not imposed, he did allege, besides the official assurances of his predecessor, Middleton, certain facts, as amounting to a direct proof that