he Nabob Fyzoola Khan, Major Palmer aforesaid did communicate
to the Resident, Bristow, and through the said Resident to the
Council-General of Bengal, the full and direct denial of the Nabob
Fyzoola Khan to all and every of the charges made or pretended to be
made against him, as follows.
"Fyzoola Khan persists in denying the infringement on his part of any
one article in the treaty, or the neglect of any obligation which it
imposed upon him.
"He does not admit of _the improvements reported to be made_ in his
jaghire, and even asserts that the collections this year will fall short
of the original _jumma_ [or estimate] by reason of the long drought.
"He denies having exceeded the limited number of Rohillas in his
service;
"And having refused the required aid of cavalry, made by Johnson, to act
with General Goddard.
"He observes, respecting the charge of evading the Vizier's requisition
for the cavalry lately stationed at Daranagur, to be stationed at
Lucknow, that he is not bound by treaty to maintain a stationary force
for the service of the Vizier, but to supply an aid of two or three
thousand troops in time of war.
"Lastly, he asserts, that, so far from encouraging the ryots [or
peasants] of the Vizier to settle in his jaghire, it has been his
constant practice to deliver them up to the Aumil of Rohilcund, whenever
he could discover them."
II. That, in giving his opinions on the aforesaid denials of the Nabob
Fyzoola Khan, the said Palmer did not controvert any one of the
constructions of the treaty advanced by the said Nabob.
That, although the said Palmer, "from general appearances as well as
universal report, did not doubt that the jumma of the jaghire is
_greatly increased_," yet he, the said Palmer, did not intimate that it
was increased in any degree near _the amount reported_, as it was drawn
out in a regular estimate transmitted to the said Palmer expressly for
the purposes of his negotiation, which was of course by him produced to
the Nabob Fyzoola Khan, and to which specifically the denial of Fyzoola
Khan must be understood to apply.
That the said Palmer did not hint any doubt of the deficiency affirmed
by Fyzoola Khan in the collections for the current year: and,
That, if any increase of jumma did truly exist, whatever it may have
been, the said Palmer did acknowledge it "to have been solemnly
relinquished (in a private agreement) by the Vizier."
That, although the said Palmer did
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