II. That Warren Hastings, Esquire, contrary to law and to his duty, and
in disobedience to the orders of the East India Company, arrogating to
himself the nomination of the Resident at the court of Oude, as his
particular agent and representative, and rejecting the Resident
appointed by the Company, and obtruding upon them a person of his own
choice, did from that time render himself in a particular manner
responsible for the good government of the provinces composing the
dominions of the Nabob of Oude.
III. That the provinces aforesaid, having been at the time of their
first connection with the Company in an improved and flourishing
condition, and yielding a revenue of more than three millions of pounds
sterling, or thereabouts, did soon after that period begin sensibly to
decline, and the subsidy of the British troops stationed in that
province, as well as other sums of money due to the Company by treaty,
ran considerably in arrear; although the prince of the country, during
the time these arrears accrued, was otherwise in distress, and had been
obliged to reduce all his establishments.
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