The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

is removed from the principal seat of government; and the number and discipline of the
troops kept up by the native princes, along with British troops, is also of great moment and
importance to the same ends. That Warren Hastings, Esquire, pretending to pursue the
same, did, in virtue of an authority acquired by the treaty of Chunar aforesaid, give strict
orders, and to which he did demand a most implicit obedience, that all officers of the
Nabob's army should be appointed "with the concurrence of the Resident," and supposing
the case that persons of obnoxious description or of known disaffection to the British
government should be appointed, (of which he left the Resident to be the judge,) he did
direct in the following words: "You are in such case to remonstrate against it; and if the
Vizier should persist in his choice, you are peremptorily, and in my name, to oppose it as a
breach of his agreement"; and he did also direct that the "mootiana [or soldiers employed
for the collection of revenue] should be reformed, and reduced into one corps for the whole
service, and that no infantry should be left in the Nabob's service but what may be
necessary for his bodyguard"; and he did further order and direct as follows: "That in
quelling disturbances the commander of the forces should assist you [the said Resident] on
the requisition of the Vizier communicated through you to him [the said commander], or at
your own tingle application. It is directed that the regiment ordered for the immediate
protection of your office and person at Lucknow shall be relieved every three months, and
during its stay there shall act solely and exclusively under your orders." And it appears in
the course of the Company's correspondence, that the country troops under the Nabob's sole
direction would be ill-disciplined and unserviceable, if not worse, and therefore the said
Warren Hastings did order that "no infantry should be kept in his service"; yet it appears
that the said Warren Hastings did make an arrangement for a body of native troops wholly
out of the control or inspection of the British government, and left a written order in the

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