This may serve for the basis of this article in the negotiation upon it." VI.

That the said Warren Hastings doth then continue to instruct the said Palmer in the alternative of a refusal from Fyzoola Khan.

"If Fyzoola Khan shall refuse to treat for a subsidy, and claim the benefit of his original agreement in its literal expression, _he possesses a right which we cannot dispute_, and it will in that case remain only to fix the precise number of horse which he shall furnish, which ought at least to exceed twenty-five hundred." VII.

That, in the above-recited instruction, the said Warren Hastings doth insinuate (for he doth not directly assert),-- 1st.

That we are entitled by treaty to five thousand troops, which he says were undoubtedly intended to be all cavalry.
2d.