Middleton to the Superior Council: yet the
said Warren Hastings, in defiance of the opinion of the Directors, and
the unanimous opinion of the General Court of the said East India
Company, as well as the precedent positive orders of the Court of
Directors, and the injunctions of an act of Parliament, has, from that
time to the present, never made any communication of the whole of his
correspondence to the Governor-General and Council, or to the Court of
Directors.
II.--SHAH ALLUM.
That, in a solemn treaty of peace, concluded the 16th of August, 1765,
between the East India Company and the late Nabob of Oude, Sujah ul
Dowlah, and highly approved of, confirmed, and ratified by the said
Company, it is agreed, "that the King Shah Allum shall remain in full
possession of Corah, and such part of the province of Allahabad as he
now possesses, which are ceded to his Majesty as a royal demesne for the
support of his dignity and expenses." That, in a separate agreement,
concluded at the same time, between the King Shah Allum and the then
Subahdar of Bengal, under the immediate security and guaranty of the
English Company, the faith of the Company was pledged to the said King
for the annual payment of twenty-six lac of rupees for his support out
of the revenues of Bengal; and that the said Company did then receive
from the said King a grant of the duanne of the provinces of Bengal,
Bahar, and Orissa, on the express condition of their being security for
the annual payment above mentioned.
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