care and protection of the said Warren
Hastings.

VII. That, on the demand of the Nabob of Oude on his parents for the
last of the sums which completed the six hundred and thirty thousand
pounds aforesaid, they, the said parents, did positively refuse to pay
any part of the same to their son for the use of the Company, until he
should agree to certain terms to be stipulated in a regular treaty, and
among other particulars to secure them in the remainder of their
possessions, and also on no account or pretence to make any further
demands or claims on them; and well knowing from whence all his claims
and exactions had arisen, they demanded that the said treaty, or family
compact, should be guarantied by the Governor-General and Council of
Bengal: and a treaty was accordingly agreed to, executed by the Nabob,
and guarantied by John Bristow, Esquire, the Resident at Oude, under the
authority and with the express consent of the said Warren Hastings and
the Council-General, and in consequence thereof the sum last required
was paid, and discharges given to the Nabob for all the money which he
had borrowed from his own mother and the mother of his father.

That, the distresses and disorders in the Nabob's government and his
debt to the Company continuing to increase, notwithstanding the violent
methods before mentioned taken to augment his resources, the said Warren
Hastings, on the 21st of May, and on the 31st July, 1781, (he and Mr.
Wheler being the only remaining members of the Council-General, and he
having the conclusive and casting voice, and thereby being in effect the
whole Council,) did, in the name and under the authority of the board,
resolve on a journey to the upper provinces, in order to a personal
interview with the Nabob of Oude, towards the settlement of his
distressed affairs, and did give to himself a delegation of the powers
of the said Council, in direct violation of the Company's orders
forbidding such delegation.

VIII. That the said Warren Hastings having by his appointment met the
Nabob of Oude near a place called Chunar, and possessing an entire and
absolute command over the said prince, he did, contrary to justice and
equity and the security of property, as well as to public faith and the
sanction of the Company's guaranty, under the color of a treaty, which
treaty was conducted secretly, without a written document of any part of
the proceeding except the pretended treaty itself, authorize the said