The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

settled charges, not of a military nature, to British subjects, did amount to little less than
140,000l. yearly, and, if other allowances not included in the estimate were added, would
greatly exceed that sum, besides much more which may justly be suspected to have been
paid, no part whereof had at that time been brought forward to any public account.

XXXVII. That the commander of one of these corps, of whose burden the said Nabob did
complain, was Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hannay, who did farm the revenues of certain
districts called Baraitch and Goruckpore, which the said Hastings, in the ninth article of his
instructions to Mr. Bristow, did estimate at twenty-three lacs of rupees, or 230,000l., per
annum: but under his, the said Hannay's, management, the collections did very greatly
decline; complaints were made that the countries aforesaid were harassed and oppressed,
and the same did fall into confusion, and at last the inhabitants broke out into a general
rebellion.

XXXVIII. That the far greater part of the said heavy list was authorized or ordered by him,
the said Warren Hastings, for the purpose of extending his own corrupt influence: for it
doth appear, that, at the time when he did pretend, in conformity to the treaty of Chunar
aforesaid, to remove the Company's servants, "civil and military, from the court and service
of the Vizier," he did assert that he thereby did "diminish his own influence, as well as that
of his colleagues, by narrowing the line of patronage"; which proves that the offices,
pensions, and other emoluments aforesaid, in Oude, were of his patronage, as his patronage
could not be diminished by taking away the said offices, &c., unless the same had been
substantially of his gift. And he did, at the time of the pretended reformation aforesaid,
express both his knowledge of the existence of the said excessive and abusive
establishments, and his sense of his duty in taking them away: for in agreeing to the article

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