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 Khan having the uncontrolled dominion of that district." PART VI. TREATY OF CHUNAR. I. That the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, being vested with the illegal powers before recited, did, on the 19th of September, 1781, enter into a treaty with the Vizier at Chunar,--which treaty (as the said Hastings relates) was drawn up "from a series of requisitions presented to him [the said Hastings] by the Vizier," and by him received "with an instant and unqualified assent to each article"; and that the said Hastings assigns his reasons for such ready assent in the following words: "I considered the subjects of his [the Vizier's] requests as essential to the reputation of our government, and no less to our interest than his." II. That in the said treaty of Chunar the third article is as follows. "That, as Fyzoola Khan has by his breach of treaty forfeited the protection of the English government, and causes by his continuance in his present independent state great alarm and detriment to the Nabob Vizier, he be permitted, _when time shall suit_, to resume his lands, and pay him in money, through the Resident, the amount stipulated by treaty, after deducting the amount and charges of the troops he stands engaged to furnish by treaty; which amount shall be passed to the account of the Company during the continuance of the present war." III. That, for the better elucidation of his policy in the several articles of the treaty above mentioned, the said Hastings did send to the Council of Calcutta (now consisting of Edward Wheler and John Macpherson, Esquires) two different copies of the said treaty, with explanatory minutes opposed to each article; and that the minute opposed to the third article is thus expressed. "The conduct of Fyzoola Khan, in refusing the aid demanded, though (1.) _not an absolute breach of treaty_, was evasive and uncandid. (2.) _The demand was made for five thousand cavalry_. (3.) _The engagement, in the treaty is literally for five thousand horse and foot_. Fyzoola Khan could not be ignorant that we had no occasion for any succors of infantry from him, and that cavalry would be of the most essential service. (4.) _So scrupulous an attention to literal expression, when a more liberal interpretation would have been highly useful and acceptable to us, strongly marks his unfriendly disposition, though it may not impeach his fidelity, and leaves him little claim to any exertions from us for the continuance of his jaghires. But _ (5.) _I am of opinion that neither the Vizier's nor the Company's interests would be promoted by depriving Fyzoola Khan of his independency, and I have_ (6.) _therefore reserved the execution of this agreement to an indefinite term; and our government may always interpose to prevent any ill effects from it_."