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II. That, soon after the date of the said instructions, and within two months of the signature
of the treaty of Chunar, the said Hastings did cause Sir Elijah Impey, Knight, his Majesty's
chief-justice at Fort William, to discredit the justice of the crown of Great Britain by
making him the channel of unwarrantable communication, and did, through the said Sir
Elijah, signify to the Resident, Middleton, his, the said Hastings's, "approbation of a subsidy
from Fyzoola Khân."

III. That the Resident, in answer, represents the proper equivalent for two thousand horse
and one thousand foot (the forces offered to Mr. Johnson by Fyzoola Khân) to be twelve
lacs, or 120,000l. sterling and upwards, each year; which the said Resident supposes is
considerably beyond what he, Fyzoola Khân, will voluntarily pay: "however, if it is your
wish that the claim should be made, I am ready to take it up, and you may he assured
nothing in my power shall be left undone to carry it through."

IV. That the reply of the said Hastings doth not appear; but that it does appear on record
that "a negotiation" (Mr. Johnson's) "was begun for Fyzoola Khân's cavalry to act with
General Goddard, and, on his [Fyzoola Khân's] evading it, that a sum of money was
demanded."

V. That, in the months of February, March, and April, the Resident, Middleton, did
repeatedly propose the resumption of Fyzoola Khân's jaghire, agreeably to the treaty of
Chunar; and that, driven to extremity (as the said Hastings supposes) "by the public
menaces and denunciations of the Resident and minister," Hyder Beg Khân, a creature of
the said Hastings, and both the minister and Resident acting professedly on and under the
treaty of Chunar, "the Nabob Fyzoola Khân made such preparations, and such a disposition

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