The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

in the treaty of Chunar for abolishing the said establishments, he did declare himself
"actuated solely by motives of justice to the Nabob, and a regard to the honor of our
national character"; and, according to his own representation, the said servants of the
Company, civil and military, "by their numbers, their influence, and the enormous amount
of their salaries, pensions, and emoluments, were an intolerable burden on the revenues and
authority of the Vizier, and exposed us to the envy and resentment of the whole country, by
excluding the native servants and adherents of the Vizier from the rewards of their services
and attachment."

XXXIX. That the revenue of the country being anticipated, mortgaged, and dilapidated, by
the counsel, concurrence, connivance, and influence, and often by the direct order of the
said Warren Hastings, the whole civil government, magistracy, and administration of justice
gradually declined and at length totally ceased through the whole of the vast provinces
which compose the territory of Oude, and no power was visible therein but that of the
farmers of the revenue, attended by bodies of troops to enforce the collections; insomuch
that robberies, assassinations, and acts of every description of outrage and violence were
perpetrated with impunity,—and even in the capital city of Lucknow, the seat of the
sovereign power, there was no court of justice whatever to take cognizance of such offences.

XL. That the said Warren Hastings, when he did interfere in the government of Oude, was
obliged by his duty to interfere for the good purposes of government, and not merely for the
purpose of extorting money therefrom and enriching his own dependants,—which latter
purpose alone he did effect, in the manner before mentioned, but not one of the former. For
the said Hastings, having procured the extraordinary powers given by and to himself by his
delegation of the 3d of July, 1781, did declare the same to be for the purpose, among many

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