The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

with regard to a brother of an ally of the Company, who showed a strong attachment and
preference to the English nation, and by suffering him, without any known effort to prevent
it, to attach himself to the cause and fortunes of the Mahrattas, who, he, the said Hastings,
well knew, did keep up claims upon several parts of the dominions of Oude, and had with
difficulty been persuaded to include the Nabob in the treaty of peace, he, having suffered
him first to languish at home in poverty, and then to fly abroad for subsistence, and
afterwards taking no step and countenancing no negotiations for his return from his
dangerous place of refuge, at the same time that several of his, the said Hastings's, creatures
had each of them allowances much more considerable than would have sufficed for the
satisfaction and comfort of him, the said fugitive prince, was guilty of a high crime and
misdemeanor.

LI. That the indigent condition before related of the other brothers of the Nabob was also
duly transmitted to the said Warren Hastings; but he did never order or direct any steps
whatsoever to be taken towards the relief of the family of a reigning prince, who were daily
in danger of perishing by famine through the effect of his measures, and those of a person
whom he supported in power against the will and inclinations of the said prince and his
family.

LII. That the foregoing instances of the penury, distress, dispersion, and exile of the
reigning family, as well as the general disorder in all the affairs of Oude, did strongly
enforce the necessity of a proper use of the British influence (the only real government then
existing) in the province aforesaid for a regulation of the economy of the Vizier's court, as
well as for the proper administration of the public concerns, civil and military, which were
in the greatest disorder; and the said Warren Hastings was under obligation to provide for

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