The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

interests, and submitted to conditions utterly incompatible with the honor of this nation, and
with his own declared sense of the dishonorable nature of those conditions,—and having
endeavored to open anew the treaty concluded with Tippoo Sultan through the means of the
Presidency of Fort St. George, upon principles of justice and honor, and which established
peace in India, and thereby exposing the British possessions there to the renewal of the
dangers and calamities of war,—has by these several acts been guilty of sundry high crimes
and misdemeanors.

XXI.—CORRESPONDENCE.

That, by an act of the 13th year of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for establishing
certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as
well in India as in Europe, the Governor-General and Council are required and directed to
pay due obedience to all such orders as they shall receive from the Court of Directors of the
said United Company, and to correspond from time to time, and constantly and diligently
transmit to the said Court an exact particular of all advices or intelligence and of all
transactions and matters whatsoever that shall come to their knowledge, relating to the
government, commerce, revenues, or interest of the said United Company."

That, in consequence of the above-recited act, the Court of Directors, in their general
instructions of the 29th March, 1774, to the Governor-General and Council, did direct, "that
the correspondence with the princes or country powers in India should be carried on
through the Governor-General only; but that all letters to be sent by him should be first

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