he board of Calcutta the condition of the said country in
the following manner.

"To the total want of all order, regularity, or _authority_ in his
government [the Furruckabad government], among _other obvious causes_,
it may, no doubt, be owing, that the country of Furruckabad is become
_an almost entire waste, without cultivation or inhabitants_; that the
capital, which but a very short time ago was distinguished as one of the
most _populous and opulent_ commercial cities in Hindostan, at present
exhibits nothing _but_ scenes of the most wretched poverty, desolation,
and misery; and the Nabob himself, though in possession of a tract of
country which with only common care is notoriously capable of yielding
an annual revenue of between thirty and forty lacs [three or four
hundred thousand pounds], with _no military establishment to maintain,
scarcely commanding the means of bare subsistence_." And the said Warren
Hastings, taking into consideration the said state of the country and
its prince, and that the latter had "_preferred frequent complaints_"
(which complaints the said Hastings to that time did not lay before the
board, as his duty required) "_of the hardships and indignities_ to
which he is subjected by the conduct of the sezauwil [sequestrator]
stationed in the country for the purpose of levying the annual tribute
which he is bound by treaty to pay to the Subah of Oude," he, the said
Warren Hastings, did declare himself "extremely desirous, as well from
motives of _common justice_ as _due_ regard to _the rank which that
chief holds among the princes of Hindostan_, of affording him relief."
And he, the said Warren Hastings, as the means of the said relief, did,
with the consent of the board, order the said native sequestrator to be
removed, and an English Resident, a servant of the Company, to be
appointed in his room, declaring "he understood a local interference to
be _indispensably necessary_ for realizing the Vizier's just demands."

III. That the said native sequestrator being withdrawn, and a Resident
appointed, no complaint whatever concerning the collection of the
revenue, or of any indignities offered to the prince of the country or
oppression of his subjects by the said Resident, was made to the
Superior Council at Calcutta; yet the said Warren Hastings did,
nevertheless, in a certain paper, purporting to be a treaty made at
Chunar with the Nabob of Oude, on the 19th September, 1781, at the
request o