The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

government, in whose behalf it was exacted; and that the participation which is allowed our
Resident in the inspection of the public treasure will secure the receipt of the Company's
demands, whilst the influence which our government will ALWAYS possess over the public
minister of the Nabob, and the authority of our own, will be an effectual means of securing
an attentive and faithful discharge of their several trusts, both towards the Company and the
Vizier."

LXXXIII. And the said Warren Hastings did not only settle a plan, of which the agency and
interference aforesaid was a part, and assert the beneficial consequences thereof, but did
also record, that the same "was a great public measure, constituted on a large and
established system, and destructive, in its instant effects, of the interest and fortune of many
patronized individuals"; and in consequence of the said treaty, he, the said Warren Hastings,
did authorize and positively require his agent aforesaid to interfere in and control and
regulate all the Nabob's affairs whatsoever: and the said Warren Hastings having made for
the Company, and in its name, an acquisition of power and authority, even if it had been
abused by others, he ought to have remedied the abuse, and brought the guilty to condign
punishment, instead of making another treaty without their approbation, consent, or
knowledge, and to this time not communicated to them, by which it appears he has annulled
the former treaty, and the authority thereby acquired to the Company, as a grievance and
usurpation, to which, from the general corruption of their service, no other remedy could be
applied than a formal renunciation of their power and influence: for which said actings and
doings the said Warren Hastings is guilty of an high crime and misdemeanor.

LXXXIV. That the Company's army in India is an object requiring the most vigilant and
constant inspection, both to the happiness of the natives, the security of the British power,
and to its own obedience and discipline, and does require that inspection in proportion as it

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