ident, to use the
British troops under his direction for that purpose; and did offer the
assistance of further forces, urging the execution in the following
peremptory terms: "You _yourself_ must be _personally present_; you must
not allow _any_ negotiation or forbearance, but must prosecute both
services, until the Begums [princesses] are at the entire mercy of the
Nabob."[61]

XXIII. That, in conformity to the said peremptory orders, a party of
British and other troops, with the Nabob in the ostensible, and the
British Resident in the real command, were drawn towards the city of
Fyzabad, in the castle of which city the mother and grandmother of the
Nabob had their residence; and after expending two days in negotiation,
(the particulars of which do not appear,) the Resident not receiving the
satisfaction he looked for, the town was first stormed, and afterwards
the castle; and little or no resistance being made, and no blood being
shed on either side, the British troops occupied all the outer inclosure
of the palace of one of the princesses, and blocked up the other.[62]

XXIV. That this violent assault, and forcible occupation of their
houses, and the further extremities they had to apprehend, did not
prevail on the female parents of the Nabob to consent to any submission,
until the Resident sent in unto them a letter from the said Warren
Hastings,[63] (no copy of which appears,) declaring himself no longer
bound by the guaranty, and containing such other matter as tended to
remove all their hopes, which seemed to be centred in British faith.

XXV. That the chief officers of their household, who were their
treasurers and confidential agents, the eunuchs Jewar Ali Khan and Behar
Ali Khan, persons of great eminence, rank, and distinction, who had been
in high trust and favor with the late Nabob, were ignominiously put into
confinement under an inferior officer, in order to extort the discovery
of the treasures and effects committed to their care and fidelity. And
the said Middleton did soon after, that is to say, on the 12th of
January, 1782, deliver them over for the same purpose into the custody
of Captain Neal Stuart, commanding the eighth regiment, by his order
given in the following words: "To be kept in close and secure
confinement, admitting of no intercourse with them, excepting by their
four menial servants, who are authorized to attend them until further
orders. You will allow them to have any necessary and