engage the said Hastings, in the Mogul's name, to enter into a treaty of mutual alliance with
a chief of the country, then minister to the said Mogul, called Afrasaib Khân; the second
were from another principal person, called Mudjed ul Dowlah, also a minister of the said
Mogul, (but styled in the said letter confidential, for distinction,) which were directly
destructive of the former; and the said latter instructions, to which it seems credence was to
be given, were sent "under the most solemn adjurations of secrecy." The purpose of these
latter and secret instructions was to require the Company's aid in freeing the Mogul from
the oppressions of his servants, namely, from the oppressions of the said Afrasaib, between
whom and the Company Major Browne (at once agent to that Company, and to two
opposite factions in the Mogul's court) accepted a power to make a treaty of mutual alliance
under the sanction of his sovereign. And it does not appear that he, Warren Hastings, did
discountenance the double-dealing and fraudulent agencies of his and the Company's
minister at that court, or did disavow any particular in the letter from him, the said Browne,
of the 30th of December, 1783, stating the offers made on his part to the Mogul, so
contradictory to his late declarations to the heir-apparent of that monarch, or did give any
reprimand to the said Browne, or did show any mark of displeasure against him, as having
acted without orders, but did again send him, with renewed confidence, to the court
aforesaid.
XI. That the said Warren Hastings, still pursuing his said evil designs, did apply to the
Council for discretionary powers relative to the intrigues and factions in the Mogul's court,
giving assurances of his resolution not to proceed against their sense; but the said Council,
being fully aware of his disposition, and having Major Browne's letter, recorded by himself,
the said Warren Hastings, before them, did refuse to grant the said discretionary powers,
but, on the contrary, did exhort him "most sedulously and cautiously to avoid, in his
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