The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

of his family and wealth, as evidently manifested either an intended or an expected rupture.

VI. That on the 6th of May the said Hastings did send his confidential agent and friend,
Major Palmer, on a private commission to Lucknow; and that the said Palmer was charged
with secret instructions relative to Fyzoola Khân, but of what import cannot be ascertained,
the said Hastings in his public instructions having inserted only the name of Fyzoola Khân,
as a mere reference (according to the explanation of the said Hastings) to what he had
verbally communicated to the said Palmer; and that the said Hastings was thereby guilty of
a criminal concealment.

VII. That some time about the month of August an engagement happened between a body
of Fyzoola Khân's cavalry and a part of the Vizier's army, in which the latter were beaten,
and their guns taken; that the Resident, Middleton, did represent the same but as a slight
and accidental affray; that it was acknowledged the troops of the Vizier were the
aggressors; that it did appear to the board, and to the said Hastings himself, an affair of
more considerable magnitude; and that they did make the concealment thereof an article of
charge against the Resident, Middleton, though the said Resident did in truth acquaint them
with the same, but in a cursory manner.

VIII. That, immediately after the said "fray" at Daranagur, the Vizier (who was "but a
cipher in the hands" of the minister and the Resident, both of them directly appointed and
supported by the said Hastings) did make of Fyzoola Khân a new demand, equally contrary
to the true intent and meaning of the treaty as his former requisitions: which new demand
was for the detachment in garrison at Daranagur to be cantoned as a stationary force at
Lucknow, the capital of the Vizier; whereas he, the Vizier, had only a right to demand an
occasional aid to join his army in the field or in garrison during a war. But the said new

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