The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

punishment." From which representation (if the said Warren Hastings did not falsely and
unjustly accuse and slander the Company's service) it appeared that the peculation which
infected the whole army, derived from the taint which it had in Oude, and so fatal to the
discipline of the troops, would be dangerously increased by his treaty and agreement
aforesaid with the Nabob, and by his own said evil counsel to the Court of Directors.

LXXXIX. That it appears, after the said Warren Hastings had, on grounds so disgraceful to
the British nation and government, agreed to remove forever the British influence and
interference from the government of Oude, on account of the disorders in the said
government, solely produced by his own criminal acts and criminal connivances, that he did
overturn his own settlement as soon as he had made it, and did, after he had abolished the
Company's Residency, as a grievance, wholly violate his own solemn agreement: for he did,
for his private purposes, continue therein his own private agent, Major Palmer, with a
number of officers and pensioners, at a charge to the revenues of the country greatly
exceeding that of the establishment under Mr. Bristow, which he did represent as frightfully
enormous, and which he pretended to remove: the former amounting to 112,950l., the latter
only to 64,202l.

XC. That his own secret agent, Major Palmer, did receive a salary or allowance, equal to
22,800l. a year, out of the distressed province of Oude; and this the said Palmer did declare
not to be more than he absolutely did really and bonâ fide spend, and that he had retrenched
considerably "in some of the articles since the expense has been borne by the Vizier, and in
every particular he made as little parade and appearance as his station would admit,"—his
station being that of the said Warren Hastings's private agent. But if the said large salary
must be considered as merely equal to the expenses, large secret emoluments must be

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