of Furruckabad from oppression without a breach of the
engagements entered into by him, the said Hastings, with the Nabob
Vizier in the name of the Company, nor suffer him to remain under the
said oppression without violating all faith and all the rules of justice
with regard to him. And the said Hastings hath directly made or
authorized no less than six revolutions in less than five years in the
aforesaid harassed province; by which frequent and rapid changes of
government, all of them made in contradiction to all his own declared
motives and reasons for the several acts successively done and undone in
this transaction, the distresses of the country and the disorders in its
administration have been highly aggravated; and in the said irregular
proceedings, and in the gross and complicated violations of faith with
all parties, the said Hastings is guilty of high crimes and
misdemeanors.

VI.--DESTRUCTION OF THE RAJAH OF SAHLONE.

I. That the late Nabob of Oude, Sujah ul Dowlah, did (on what reasons of
policy or pretences of justice is unknown) dispossess a certain native
person of distinction, or eminent Rajah, residing in the country of
Sahlone, "the lineal descendant of the most powerful Hindoo family in
that part of Hindostan," of his patrimonial estate, and conferred the
same, or part of the same, on his, the Nabob's, mother, as a jaghire, or
estate, for the term of her life: and the mother of the Nabob, in order
to quiet the country, and to satisfy in some measure the principal and
other inhabitants, did allow and pay a certain pension to the said
Rajah; which pension, on the general confiscation of jaghires, made at
the instigation of the said Warren Hastings, and by the letting the
lands so confiscated to farmers at rack-rents, was discontinued and
refused to be paid; and the discontinuance of the said pension, "on
account of the personal respect borne to the Rajah, (as connections with
him are sought for, and thought _to confer honor_,)" did cause an
universal discontent and violent commotions in the district of Sahlone,
and other parts of the province of Oude, with great consequent effusion
of blood, and interruption, if not total discontinuance, to the
collection of the revenues in those parts, other than as the same was
irregularly, and with great damage to the country, enforced by British
troops.

II. That Mr. Lumsdaine, the officer employed to reduce those disordered
parts of the province to submission,