IV. That a sum of money ("which of course was to be received by the Company") being now obtained, and the "_interests both of the Company and the Vizier_" being thus much "_better promoted_" by "_establishing the rights_" of Fyzoola Khan than they could have been by "_depriving him of his independency_," when every undue influence of secret and criminal purposes was removed from the mind of the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, Esquire, he, the said Hastings, did also concur with his friend and agent, Major Palmer, in the vindication of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, and in the most ample manner. That the said Warren Hastings did now clearly and explicitly understand the clauses of the treaty, "that Fyzoola Khan should send _two_ or _three_ [and not _five_] thousand men, or _attend in person, in case it was requisite_." That the said Warren Hastings did now confess that the right of the Vizier under the treaty was at best "but _a precarious and unserviceable right_; and that he thought fifteen lacs, or 150,000_l._ and upwards, an ample equivalent," (or, according to the expression of Major Palmer, _an excellent bargain_,) as in truth it was, "for expunging an article of such a tenor and so loosely worded." And, finally, that the said Hastings did give the following description of the general character, disposition, and circumstances of the Nabob Fyzoola Khan. "The rumors which had been spread of his hostile designs against the Vizier were totally groundless, and if he had been inclined, he had not the means to make himself formidable; on the contrary, being in the decline of life, and possessing a very fertile and prosperous jaghire, it is more natural to suppose that Fyzoola Khan wishes to spend the remainder of his days in quietness than that he is preparing to embark in active and offensive scenes which must end in his own destruction." V. Yet that, notwithstanding this virtual and implied crimination of his whole conduct toward the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, and after all the aforesaid acts systematically prosecuted in open violation of a positive treaty against a prince who had an hereditary right to more than he actually possessed, for whose protection the faith of the Company and the nation was repeatedly pledged, and who had deserved and obtained the public thanks of the British government,--when, in allusion to certain of the said acts, the Court of Directors had expressed to the said Hastings their wishes "to be considered rather as the guardians of the honor and property of the native powers than as the instruments of oppression," he, the said Hastings, in reply to the said Directors, his masters, did conclude his official account of the final settlement with Fyzoola Khan with the following indecent, because unjust, exultation:-- "Such are the measures which we shall ever wish to observe towards our allies or dependants upon our frontiers." APPENDIX TO THE EIGHTH AND SIXTEENTH CHARGES.[26]