"The Nabob Fyzoola Khan complains of the distresses he has this year suffered from the drought. The whole collections have, with great management, amounted to about twelve lacs of rupees, from which sum he has to support his troops, his family, and several relations and dependants of the late Rohilla chiefs. _He says, it clearly appears to be intended to deprive him of his country, as the high demand you have made of him is inadmissible._ Should he have assented to it, it would be impossible to perform the conditions, and then his reputation would be injured by a breach of agreement. _Allif Khan further represents, that it is his master's intention, in case the demand should not be relinquished by you, first to proceed to Lucknow, where he proposes having an interview with the Vizier and the Resident; if he should not be able to obtain his own terms for a future possession of his jaghire, he will set off for Calcutta in order to pray for justice from the Honorable the Governor-General._ He observes, it is the custom of the Honorable Company, when they deprive a chief of his country, to grant him some allowance. This he expects from Mr. Hastings's bounty; _but if he should be disappointed, he will certainly set off upon a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, and renounce the cares of the world_.--_He directs his vakeel to ascertain whether the English intend to deprive him of his country_; for if they do, he is ready to surrender it, upon receiving an order from the Resident." XI. That, after much negotiation, the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, "being fully sensible that an engagement to furnish military aid, _however clearly the conditions might be stated, must be a source of perpetual misunderstanding and inconveniencies_," did at length agree with Major Palmer to give fifteen lacs, or 150,000_l._ and upwards, by four instalments, that he might be exempted from all future claims of military service; that the said Palmer represents it to be his belief, "_that no person, not known to possess your_ [the said Hastings's] _confidence and support in the degree that I am supposed to do_, would have obtained nearly so good terms"; but from what motive "terms so good" were granted, and how the confidence and support of the said Hastings did truly operate on the mind of Fyzoola Khan, doth appear to be better explained by another passage in the same letter, where the said Palmer congratulates himself on _the satisfaction which he gave to Fyzoola Khan_ in the conduct of this negotiation, as he spent a month in order to effect "by argument and persuasion _what he could have obtained in an hour by threats and compulsions_." PART IX. FULL VINDICATION OF FYZOOLA KHAN BY MAJOR PALMER AND MR. HASTINGS.