The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

That, by the definitive treaty of peace concluded with the Mahrattas at Poorunder, on the
1st of March, 1776, the Mahrattas gave up all right and title to the island of Salsette,
unjustly taken from them by the Presidency of Bombay; did also give up to the English
Company forever all right and title to their entire shares of the city and purgunnah of
Baroach; did also give forever to the English Company a country of three lacs of rupees
revenue, near to Baroach; and did also agree to pay to the Company twelve lacs of rupees,
in part of the expenses of the English army: and that the terms of the said treaty were
honorable and advantageous to the India Company .[20]

That Warren Hastings, having broken the said treaty, and forced the Mahrattas into another
war by a repeated invasion of their country, and having conducted that war in the manner
hereinbefore described, did, on the 17th of May, 1782, by the agency of Mr. David
Anderson, conclude another treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance with the Mahrattas,
by which the said Hastings agreed to deliver up to them all the countries, places, cities, and
forts, particularly the island of Bassein, (taken from the Peshwa during the war,) and to
relinquish all claim to the country of three lacs of rupees ceded to the Company by the
treaty of Poorunder; that the said Warren Hastings did also at the said time, by a private and
separate agreement, deliver up to Mahdajee Sindia the whole of the city of Baroach,—that
is, not only the share in the said city which the India Company acquired by the treaty of
Poorunder, but the other share thereof which the India Company possessed for several years
before that treaty; and that among the reasons assigned by Mr. David Anderson for totally
stripping the Presidency of Bombay of all their possessions on the Malabar coast, he has
declared, "that, from the general tenor of the rest of the treaty, the settlement of Bombay
would be in future put on such a footing that it might well become a question whether the
possession of an inconsiderable territory without forts would not be attended with more loss

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