The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

by the Resident, Middleton, transmitted to the board, together with a letter from the Vizier,
founded on the said report and letter of the said Johnson, and proposing in consequence "to
resume the grant, and to leave Fyzoola Khân to join his other faithless brethren who were
sent across the Ganges."

That the said papers were read in Council on the 4th of June, 1781, when the Governor-
General, Warren Hastings, did move and carry a vote to suspend a final resolution on the
same: and the said Hastings did not express any disapprobation of the proceedings of the
said Johnson; neither did the said Hastings assign any reasons for his motion of suspension,
which passed without debate. That in truth the said Hastings had then projected a journey
up the country to meet the Vizier for the settlement of articles relative to the regulation of
Oude and its dependencies, among which was included the jaghire of Fyzoola Khân; and
the said Hastings, for the aforesaid purposes, did, on the 3d of July, by his own casting vote,
grant to himself, and did prevail on his colleague, Edward Wheler, Esquire, to grant, a
certain illegal delegation of the whole powers of the Governor-General and Council, and on
the seventh of the same month did proceed on his way to join the Vizier at a place called
Chunar, on the borders of Benares; and that the aforesaid vote of suspending a final
resolution on the transactions with Fyzoola Khân was therefore in substance and effect a
reference thereof by the said Hastings from himself in council with his colleague, Wheler,
to himself in conference and negotiation with the Vizier, who, from the first demand of the
five thousand horse, had taken every occasion of showing his inclination to dispossess
Fyzoola Khân, and who before the said demand (in a letter which does not appear, but
which the Vizier himself quotes as antecedent to the said demand) had complained to the
said Hastings of the "injury and irregularity in the management of the provinces bordering
on Rampoor, arising from Fyzoola Khân having the uncontrolled dominion of that district."

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