The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

further, that, great and enormous as the sum must appear which we have allotted for the
support of the ministers of the government, we will not hesitate to pronounce that it is
necessary and reasonable, and will appear so on the consideration of the power which men
employed on these important services have either to obstruct or promote the public good,
unless their integrity be confirmed by the ties of gratitude and interest."

VII. That the said Mahomed Reza Khân continued, with the same diligence, spirit, and
fidelity, to execute the trust reposed in him, which comprehended a large proportion of the
weight of government, and particularly of the collections; and his attachment to the interest
of the Company, and his extensive knowledge, were again, in the course of the year 1767,
fully acknowledged, and stated to the Court of Directors. And it further appears that by an
incessant application to business his health was considerably impaired, which gave
occasion in the year following, that is, in February, 1768, to a fresh acknowledgment of his
services in these terms: "We must, in justice to Mahomed Reza Khân, express the high
sense we entertain of his abilities, and of the indefatigable attention he has shown in the
execution of the important trust reposed in him; and we cannot but lament the prospect of
losing his services from the present declining state of his health."

VIII. That as in the increase of the revenue the said Mahomed Reza Khân was employed as
a person likely to improve the same without detriment to the people, so, when the state of
any province seemed to require a remission, he was employed as a person disposed to the
relief of the people without fraud to the revenue; and this was expressed by the President
and Council as follows, with relation to the remissions granted in the province of Bahar:
"That the general knowledge of Mahomed Reza Khân, in all matters relative to the
dewanny revenues, induced us to consent to such deductions being made from the general

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