The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

and reprobation of all the pretended grounds and reasons on which the same was supported,
—marking distinctly his prevarication and contradictions in the same, and pointing to him
their full conviction of the unworthy motives on which he had made so shameful an
arrangement: telling him, in the 17th paragraph of their general letter of the 4th of February,
1779, "The Nabob's letters of the 25th and 30th of August, of the 3d of September, and 17th
of November, leave us no doubt of the true design of this extraordinary business being to
bring forward Munny Begum, and again to invest her with improper power and influence,
notwithstanding our former declaration, that so great a part of the Nabob's allowance had
been embezzled and misapplied under her superintendence."

XXVI. That, in consequence of the censure and condemnation of the unwarrantable
measures of the said Warren Hastings by the Court of Directors, on the aforesaid and other
weighty and substantial grounds, they did order and direct as follows, in the 20th paragraph
of the general letter of the same date. "As we deem it for the welfare of the country that the
office of Naib Subahdar be for the present continued, and that this high office should be
filled by a person of wisdom, experience, and of approved fidelity to the Company, and as
we have no reason to alter the opinion given of Mahomed Reza Khân in our letter of the
24th of December, 1776, we positively direct, that you forthwith signify to the Nabob
Mobarek ul Dowlah our pleasure that Mahomed Reza Khân be immediately restored to the
office of Naib Subahdar; and we further direct, that Mahomed Reza Khân be again assured
of the continuance of our favor, so long as a firm attachment to the interest of the Company
and a proper discharge of the duties of his station shall render him worthy of our protection."

XXVII. That the aforesaid direction did convey in it such evident and cogent reason, and
was so far enforced by justice to individuals and by regard to the peace and happiness of the

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