The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

specific offer of three propositions; and that by one of the said propositions "an annual
increase of near 400,000l. would have accrued to the revenues of our ally, and the
immediate acquisition of above 300,000l. to the Company, for their influence in effecting
an accommodation perfectly consistent with their engagements to the Vizier," and strictly
consonant to the demands of justice.

VI. That, so great was the confidence of the Nabob Fyzoola Khân in the just, humane, and
liberal feelings of Englishmen, as to "lull him into an inactivity" of the most essential
detriment to his interests: since, "in the hopes which he entertained from the interposition of
our government," he declined the invitation of the Mogul to join the arms of his Majesty
and the Mahrattas, "refused any connection with the Seiks," and did even neglect to take the
obvious precaution of crossing the Ganges, as he had originally intended, while the river
was yet fordable,—a movement that would have enabled him certainly to baffle all pursuit,
and probably "to keep the Vizier in a state of disquietude for the remainder of his life."

VII. That the commander-in-chief, Colonel Alexander Champion aforesaid, "thought
nothing could be more honorable to this nation than the support of so exalted a character;
and whilst it could be done on terms so advantageous, supposed it very unlikely that the
vakeel's proposition should be received with indifference"; that he did accordingly refer it
to the administration through Warren Hastings, Esquire, then Governor of Fort William and
President of Bengal; and he did at the same time inclose to the said Warren Hastings a letter
from the Nabob Fyzoola Khân to the said Hastings,—which letter does not appear, but must
be supposed to have been of the same tenor with those before cited to the commander-in-
chief,—of which also copies were sent to the said Hastings by the commander-in-chief; and
he, the commander-in-chief aforesaid, after urging to the said Hastings sundry good and

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