PART VII.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREATY OF CHUNAR.
I.That, in consequence of the treaty of Chunar, the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, did send official instructions respecting the various articles of the said treaty to the said Resident, Middleton; and that, in a postscript, the said Hastings did forbid the resumption of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan's jaghire, "until circumstances may render it more expedient and easy to be attempted than the present more material pursuits of government make it appear": thereby intimating a positive limitation of the indefinite term in the explanatory minute above recited, and confining the suspension of the article to the pressure of the war.
II.

That, soon after the date of the said instructions, and within two months of the signature of the treaty of Chunar, the said Hastings did cause Sir Elijah Impey, Knight, his Majesty's chief-justice at Fort William, to discredit the justice of the crown of Great Britain by making him the channel of unwarrantable communication, and did, through the said Sir Elijah, signify to the Resident, Middleton, his, the said Hastings's, "approbation of a _subsidy_ from Fyzoola Khan." III.

That the Resident, in answer, represents the proper equivalent for two thousand horse and one thousand foot (the forces offered to Mr.
Johnson by Fyzoola Khan) to be twelve lacs, or 120,000_l._ sterling and upwards, each year; which the said Resident supposes is considerably beyond what he, Fyzoola Khan, _will voluntarily pay_: "however, if it is your wish that the claim should be made, I am ready to take it up, and _you may he assured nothing in my power shall be left undone to carry it through_." IV.

That the reply of the said Hastings doth not appear; but that it does appear on record that "a negotiation" (Mr.Johnson's) "was begun for Fyzoola Khan's cavalry to act with General Goddard, and, on his [Fyzoola Khan's] _evading_ it, _that a sum of money was demanded_." V.That, in the months of February, March, and April, the Resident, Middleton, did repeatedly propose the resumption of Fyzoola Khan's jaghire, agreeably to the treaty of Chunar; and that, driven to extremity (as the said Hastings supposes) "by the public menaces and denunciations of the Resident and minister," Hyder Beg Khan, a creature of the said Hastings, and both the minister and Resident acting professedly on and under the treaty of Chunar, "the Nabob Fyzoola Khan made such preparations, and such a disposition of his family and wealth, as evidently manifested either an intended or an _expected rupture_." VI.

That on the 6th of May the said Hastings did send his confidential agent and friend, Major Palmer, on a private commission to Lucknow; and that the said Palmer was charged with secret instructions relative to Fyzoola Khan, but of what import cannot be ascertained, the said Hastings in his public instructions having inserted only the name of Fyzoola Khan, as a mere reference (according to the explanation of the said Hastings) to what he had verbally communicated to the said Palmer; and that the said Hastings was thereby guilty of a criminal concealment.
VII.