l." All these considerations did not prevent the said Warren
Hastings from making and carrying into execution the said mercenary
agreement for a sum of money, the payment of which the Nabob endeavored
to evade on a construction of the verbal treaty, and was so far from
being insisted on, as it ought to have been, by the said Warren
Hastings, that, when, after the completion of the service, the
commander-in-chief was directed to make a demand of the money, the agent
of the said Warren Hastings at the same time assured the Nabob "that the
demand was nothing more than matter of form, common, and even necessary,
in all public transactions, and that, although the board considered the
claim of the government literally due, it was not the intention of
administration to prescribe to his Excellency _the mode, or even
limits, of payment_." Nor was any part of the money recovered, until the
establishment of the Governor-General and Council by act of Parliament,
and their determination to withdraw the brigade from the Nabob's
service,--the Resident at his court, appointed by the said Warren
Hastings, having written, _that he had experienced much duplicity and
deceit in most of his transactions with his Excellency_; and the said
Nabob and his successors falling back in other payments in the same or
greater proportion as he advanced in the payment of this debt, the
consideration of lucre to the Company, the declared motive to this
shameful transaction, totally failed, and no money in effect and
substance (as far as by any account to be depended on appears) has been
obtained.

That the said Nabob of Oude did, in consequence of the said agreement,
and with the assistance of British troops, which were ordered to march
and subjected to his disposal by the said Warren Hastings and the
Council, unjustly enter into and invade the country of the Rohillas, and
did there make war in a barbarous and inhuman manner, "by an abuse of
victory," "by the unnecessary destruction of the country," "by a wanton
display of violence and oppression, of inhumanity and cruelty," and "by
the sudden expulsion and casting down of an whole race of people, to
whom the slightest benevolence was denied." When prayer was made not to
dishonor the Begum (a princess of great rank, whose husband had been
killed in battle) and other women, by _dragging them about the country,
to be loaded with the scoffs of the Nabob's rabble, and otherwise still
worse used_, the Nabob re