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settle points with him."

V. That the said Warren Hastings, not thinking himself justified, on the mere plea of an
evasion, to push forward his proceedings to that extremity which he seems already to have
made his scope and object, and seeking some better color for his unjust and violent
purposes, did further move, that commissioners should be sent from the Vizier and the
Company to Fyzoola Khân, to insist on a clause of a treaty which nowhere appears, being
essentially different from the treaty of Lall-Dang, though not in the part on which the
requisition is founded; and the said Hastings did then, in a style unusually imperative,
proceed as follows.

"Demand immediate delivery of three thousand cavalry; and if he should evade or refuse
compliance, that the deputies shall deliver him a formal protest against him for breach of
treaty, and return, making this report to the Vizier, which Mr. Middleton is to transmit to
the board."

VI. That the said motion of the Governor-General, Hastings, was ordered accordingly,—the
Council, as already has been herein related, consisting but of two members, and the said
Hastings consequently "uniting in his own person all the powers of government."

VII. That, when the said Hastings ordered the said demand for three thousand cavalry, he,
the said Hastings, well knew that a compliance therewith, on the part of the Nabob Fyzoola
Khân, was utterly impossible: for he, the said Hastings, had at the very moment before him
a letter of Fyzoola Khân, stating, that he, Fyzoola Khân, had "but two thousand cavalry"
altogether; which letter is entered on the records of the Company, in the same Consultation,
immediately preceding the Governor-General's minute. That the said Hastings, therefore,

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