The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

more than four times the amount thereof.

XCV. That, in the said deceits, prevarications, contradictions, malicious accusations,
fraudulent concealments, and compelled discoveries, as well as in the said secret, corrupt,
and prodigal disposition of the revenues of Oude, as well as in his breach of faith to the
Nabob, in continuing expensive establishments under a private agent of his own after he
had agreed to remove the Company's agent, the said Warren Hastings is guilty of an high
offence and misdemeanor.

XVII.—MAHOMED REZA KHÂN.

I. That it was the declared policy of the Company, on the acquisition of the dewanny of
Bengal, to continue the country government, under the inspection of the Resident at the
Nabob's durbar in the first instance, and that of the President and Council in the last; and for
that purpose they did stipulate to assign, for the support of the dignity of the Nabob, an
annual allowance from the revenues, equal to four hundred thousand pounds a year.

II. That, during the country government, the principal active person in the administration of
affairs, for rank, and for reputation of probity, and of knowledge in the revenues and the
laws, was Mahomed Reza Khân, who, besides large landed property, was possessed of
offices whose emoluments amounted nearly, if not altogether, to one hundred thousand
pounds a year.

IV.[16] That the Company's servants, in the beginning, were not conversant in the affairs of

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