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property, presume to dispose of it, and to desire the transfer of it, as of his own bounty, to
the Company, his masters. To this second demand he, the said Hastings, added a third
demand of 120,000l. sterling, for four additional regiments on the Nabob's list, after he had
solemnly engaged to take off the ten with which it had been burdened: the whole of the
claims through his private agent aforesaid making the sum of 820,000l. sterling.

XXXIII. That the demands, claims, &c., made by the said Warren Hastings upon the
government of Oude in that year amounted to the enormous sum of 2,530,000l. sterling;
which joined to the arrears to troops, and some internal failures, amounting to 255,000l.
sterling more, the whole charge arose to 2,785,000l. sterling, which was considerably more
than double the net produce of the Nabob's revenue,—the same only amounting to
1,450,000l. "nominal revenue, never completely realized."

XXXIV. That, towards providing for these extravagant demands, he, the said Warren
Hastings, did direct and authorize another breach of the public faith given in the treaty of
Chunar. For whereas, by the second article of the treaty aforesaid, it was left to the Nabob's
discretion whether or not he should resume the landed estates, called jaghires, within his
dominions, and notwithstanding the said Hastings, in defence of the said article, did declare
that the Nabob should be left to the exercise of his own authority and pleasure respecting
them, yet he, the said Hastings, did authorize a violent compulsion to be used towards the
said Nabob for accomplishing an universal confiscation of that species of landed property;
and in so doing he did also compel the Nabob to break his faith with all the landholders of
that description, not only in violating the assurance of his own original grants, but his
assurance recently given, when, being pressed by the Company, he, the Nabob, had made a
temporary seizure of the profits of the lands aforesaid, in the manner of a compulsory loan,

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