The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

That, in all such concealments and acts done or ordered without the consent and authority
of the Supreme Council, the said Warren Hastings has been guilty of high crimes and
misdemeanors.

XXII.—FYZOOLA KHÂN.

PART I.

RIGHTS OF FYZOOLA KHÂN, ETC., BEFORE THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG.

I. That the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, who now holds of the Vizier the territory of Rampoor,
Shahabad, and certain other districts dependent thereon, in the country of the Rohillas, is
the second son of a prince renowned in the history of Hindostan under the name of Ali
Mohammed Khân, some time sovereign of all that part of Rohilcund which is particularly
distinguished by the appellation of the Kutteehr.

II. That, after the death of Ali Mohammed aforesaid, as Fyzoola Khân, together with his
elder brother, was then a prisoner of war at a place called Herat, "the Rohilla chiefs took
possession of the ancient estates" of the captive princes; and the Nabob Fyzoola Khân was
from necessity compelled to waive his hereditary rights for the inconsiderable districts of
Rampoor and Shahabad, then estimated to produce from six to eight lacs of annual revenue.

III. That in 1774, on the invasion of Rohilcund by the united armies of the Vizier Sujah ul
Dowlah and the Company, the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, "with some of his people, was present
at the decisive battle of St. George," where Hafiz Rhamet, the great leader of the Rohillas,

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