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receive"; and that the Resident, Middleton, "did make himself in some measure responsible
for the said presents being obtained," and did write to Mr. Daniel Barwell accordingly.

VII. That, agreeably to the resolution of Council hereinbefore recited, the solicited
guaranty, under the seal of the Resident, Middleton, thus duly authorized on behalf of the
Company, was transmitted, together with the renewed treaty, to Mr. Daniel Barwell
aforesaid at Rampoor, and that they were both by him, the said Barwell, presented to the
Nabob Fyzoola Khân, with a solemnity not often paralleled, "in the presence of the greatest
part of the Nabob's subjects, who were assembled, that the ceremony might create a full
belief in the breasts of all his people that the Company would protect him as long as he
strictly adhered to the letter of his treaty."

VIII. That, in the conclusion of the said ceremony, the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did deliver to
the said Barwell, for the use of the Vizier, a nuzzer (or present) of elephants, horses, &c.,
and did add thereto a lac of rupees, or 10,000l. and upwards: which sum the said Barwell,
"not being authorized to accept any pecuniary consideration, did at first refuse; but upon
Fyzoola Khân's urging, that on such occasions it was the invariable custom of Hindostan,
and that it must on the present be expected, as it had been formerly the case," (but when
does not appear,) he, the said Barwell, did accept the said lac in the name of the Vizier, our
ally, "in whose wealth" (as Warren Hastings on another occasion observed) "we should
participate," and on whom we at that time had an accumulating demand.

IX. That, over and above the lac of rupees thus presented to the Vizier, the Nabob Fyzoola
Khân did likewise offer one other lac of rupees, or upwards of 10,000l. more, for the
Company, "as some acknowledgment of the obligation he received; that, although such
acknowledgment was not pretended to be the invariable custom of Hindostan on such

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