The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

concurrence of the Vizier, and the approbation of the Governor-General, to the Nabob
Fyzoola Khân, at Rampoor; and that the said Palmer was to "endeavor to convince the
Nabob that all doubts of his attachment to the Vizier are ceased, and whatever claims may
be made on him are founded upon the basis of his interest and advantage and a plan of
establishing his right to the possession of his jaghire."

That the sudden ceasing of the said doubts, without any inquiry of the slightest kind, doth
warrant a strong presumption of the Resident's conviction that they never really existed, but
were artfully feigned, as a pretence for some harsh interposition; and that the indecent
mockery of establishing, as a matter of favor, for a pecuniary consideration, rights which
were never impeached but by the treaty of Chunar, (an instrument recorded by Warren
Hastings himself to be founded on falsehood and injustice,) doth powerfully prove the true
purpose and object of all the duplicity, deceit, and double-dealing with which that treaty
was projected and executed.

V. That the said Palmer was instructed by the Resident, Bristow, with the subsequent
approbation of the Governor-General, "to obtain from Fyzoola Khân an annual tribute"; to
which the Resident adds,—"If you can procure from him, over and above this, a peshcush
[or fine] of at least five lacs, it would be rendering an essential service to the Vizier, and
add to the confidence his Excellency would hereafter repose in the attachment of the Nabob
Fyzoola Khân." And that the said Governor-General, Hastings, did give the following
extraordinary ground of calculation, as the basis of the said Palmer's negotiation for the
annual tribute aforesaid.

"It was certainly understood, at the time the treaty was concluded, (of which this stipulation
was a part,) that it applied solely to cavalry: as the Nabob Vizier, possessing the service of

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