correspondence, were certain Mahomedan princes in the neighborhood of Delhi in amity
with the Company, and some of them at that time in the actual service and in the apparent
confidence and favor of the said Mogul; and he did order Major Browne to offer to the
Mogul king to provide for the entire expense of any troops the Shah [the said king] might
require; and the proposal was accordingly accepted, with the conditions annexed: by which
proposal and acceptance thereof the East India Company was placed in a situation of great
and perplexing difficulty; since either they were to engage, at an unlimited expense, in new
wars, contrary to their orders, contrary to their general declared policy, and contrary to the
published resolutions of the House of Commons, and wholly incompatible with the state of
their finances, or, to preserve peace, they must risk the imputation of a new violation of
faith, by departing from an agreement made on the voluntary proposal of their own
government,—the agent of the said Hastings having declared, in his letter to the said
Hastings, by him communicated to the board, "that the business of assisting the Shah [the
Mogul emperor] can and must go on, if we wish to be secure in India, or regarded as a
nation of faith and honor."
V. That the said Warren Hastings did, on the 20th day of January, 1784, send in circulation
to the other members of the Council a letter to him from his agent, Major Browne, dated at
Delhi, on the 30th of December, 1783, viz., that letter to which the foregoing references are
made, in which the said Browne did directly press, and indirectly (though sufficiently and
strongly) suggest, several highly dangerous measures for realizing the general offers and
engagements of the said Warren Hastings,—proposing, that, besides a proportion of field
artillery, and a train of battering cannon for the purpose of sieges, six regiments of sepoys
in the Company's service should be transferred to that of the said king, and that certain
other corps should also be raised for the said service in the English provinces and
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