WAR AND PEACE 238

XXI. CORRESPONDENCE 266

XXII. FYZOOLA KHAN

PART I. RIGHTS OF FYZOOLA KHAN, ETC.,
BEFORE THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG 268

PART II. RIGHTS OF FYZOOLA KHAN UNDER THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG 275

PART III. GUARANTY OF THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG 278

PART IV. THANKS OF THE BOARD TO FYZOOLA KHAN 286

PART V. DEMAND OF FIVE THOUSAND HORSE 287

PART VI. TREATY OF CHUNAR 296

PART VII. CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREATY OF CHUNAR 302

PART VIII. PECUNIARY COMMUTATION OF THE STIPULATED AID 306

PART IX. FULL VINDICATION OF FYZOOLA KHAN BY
MAJOR PALMER AND MR. HASTINGS 313

APPENDIX TO THE EIGHTH AND SIXTEENTH CHARGES 319

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SPEECHES IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE,
LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL.

SPEECH IN OPENING THE IMPEACHMENT.

FIRST DAY: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1788 329

SECOND DAY; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 396

ARTICLES OF CHARGE

OF

HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

AGAINST

WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE,

LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL:

PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN APRIL AND MAY, 1786.

ARTICLES VII.-XXII.

VII.--CONTRACTS.

That the Court of Directors of the East India Company had laid down the
following fundamental rules for the conduct of such of the Company's
business in Bengal as could be performed by contract, and had repeatedly
and strictly ordered the Governor and Council of Port William to observe
those rules, viz.: That all contracts should be publicly advertised, and
the most reasonable proposals accepted; that the contracts of
provisions, and for furnishing draught and carriage bullocks for the
army, should be _annual_; and that they should not fail to advertise for
and receive proposals for those contracts _every year_.

That the said Warren Hastings, in direct disobedience to the said
positive orders, and, as the Directors themselves say, _by a most
deliberate breach of his duty_, did, in September, 1777, accept of
proposals offered by Ernest Alexander Johnson for providing draught