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490 OUDH. By the treaty of 1765, which followed these events, Korah and Allahábíd, which had hitherto formed part of the Oudh viceroyalty, were made over to the Emperor for the support of his dignity and expenses, all the remaining territories being restored to Shujá-ud-daula, who, reduced to extremities, had thrown himself upon the generosity of the British Government. Three years la'er, in consequence of some uneasiness as to the designs of the Nawab, who was ambitious of recovering Korah and Allahábád from the Emperor, an engagement (1768) was entered into for the restriction of Shujá’s army to 35,000 men, none of them to be equipped or drilled like English troops. * At this time,' says Mr. (now Sir) C. U. Aitchison, from whose Treaties and Engagements the later portion of this history is condensed, 'the position of the Maráthás was most threatening. The Emperor had put himself in their hands, and been placed by them on the throne of Delhi, but he had no real power, and his name was used as a for the justification of the Maráthá usurpations. On leaving Allahabad in 1771, the Emperor put the Wazír (Shujá-ud-daula) in possession of the fort. But when the Maráthás extorted from him the cession of Korah and Alla hábád, it was deened necessary, for protection against the Maráthás, that both the forts of Chanár (Chunar) and Allahábád should be held by English troops, and agreements to this effect were executed on 20th March 1772. The grant of Korah and Allahábád to the Maráthás was considered to be contrary to the meaning of the treaty of 1765, by which these Districts were given to the Emperor for the support of his dignity; and as the Emperor had abandoned possession of them, they were sold to the Wazír for 50 lakhs of rupees, and at the same time the Wazír agreed to pay Sicca Rs. 210,000 per month for each brigade of English troops that might march to his assistance.' In 1775, Shujá-ud-daulá died, and was succeeded by his son Asafud-daula. At his accession a new treaty was conc'uded, confirming him in possession of Korah and Allahabad, increasing the payment for British troops, and ceding to the British Government Benares, Jaunpur, Gházípur, and the possessions of Rájá Chait Singh. Asaf daulá soon fell into pecuniary arrears, and attempted to deprire luis mother, the famous Bahu Begam, of her property. On the complaint of the Begam, Government interfered, and an agreement was made between Asaf-ud-daula and his mother, maintaining the latter in the full enjoyment of her jugirs. Asaf-ud-daula consequently removed from Faizabád (Fyzábád), which had been the residence of his father, to Lucknow, leaving the Begam in undisturbed possession at Faizabad. In 1781, at a personal interview with Warren Hastings at Chanír, a new treaty was negotiated, to give relief to the Nawab by the withdrawal of all English troops, except a single brigade and one additional