The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

and, on the other, the consequences which might arise from the Mahrattas having in their
possession and under their influence a son of the late Nabob of Oude, did without delay
advise Warren Hastings, Esquire, of the event aforesaid; and he did also write to Mr.
Bristow, the Resident at the court of the Nabob Vizier, several letters, of the 9th and 20th of
February, and of the 6th of March and 6th of April, 1783, in order that some steps should be
taken for his return and establishment in his own country. And the said Anderson did
inform the Resident, Bristow, in his letter aforesaid, that, on the arrival of the fugitive
prince, brother of the reigning sovereign of Oude, at the Mahratta camp, he did cause his
tent to be pitched close to that of Mr. Anderson; but finding this not agreeable to the
Mahratta general, Sindia, he afterwards removed: and that he showed a strong attachment to
the English, and was inclined to throw himself upon their generosity; that he was desirous
of going to Calcutta, and declared, that, if he, the said Anderson, "would give him the
smallest encouragement, he would quit all his followers, and come alone, and would take
up his residence under his protection." And the said Anderson did declare, that he thought it
"would be policy, and much to the credit of our government, that some provision should be
made for Mirza Jungly in our territories."

XLIX. That the said Bristow did represent the aforesaid circumstances to Hyder Beg Khân,
minister to the Nabob of Oude, declaring it his opinion, "that his Highness's brother's thus
taking refuge with a foreign prince is a reflection upon the Vizier, and it would be advisable
that an allowance should be granted to him upon the footing of his brothers, that he might
remain in the presence." But the Nabob was induced to refuse to his brother any offer of
any allowance beyond the two hundred pounds per month, allowed, but not paid, to his
other brothers,—and which the said prince did observe to Mr. Anderson, "that it was not
only inadequate to his expenses, but infinitely less" (as the truth was) "than what his

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