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 Khan _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 Khan_." 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 our forces, could not possibly require infantry, and least of all such infantry as Fyzoola Khan could furnish; and _a single horseman included in the aid which Fyzoola Khan might furnish would prove a literal compliance with the said stipulation_. The number, therefore, of horse implied by it ought at least to be ascertained: _we will suppose five thousand_, and, allowing the exigency for their attendance to exist only in the proportion of _one year in five_, reduce the demand to one thousand for the computation of the subsidy, which, at the rate of _fifty rupees_ per man, will amount to fifty thousand _per mensem_. This may serve for the basis of this article in the negotiation upon it." VI. That the said Warren Hastings doth then continue to instruct the said Palmer in the alternative of a refusal from Fyzoola Khan. "If Fyzoola Khan shall refuse to treat for a subsidy, and claim the benefit of his original agreement in its literal expression, _he possesses a right which we cannot dispute_, and it will in that case remain only to fix the precise number of horse which he shall furnish, which ought at least to exceed twenty-five hundred." VII. That, in the above-recited instruction, the said Warren Hastings doth insinuate (for he doth not directly assert),-- 1st. That we are entitled by treaty to five thousand troops, which he says were undoubtedly intended to be all cavalry.