The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

VIII. That, from the attestation of Colonel Champion aforesaid, the government of Calcutta
acquired the same right to interpose with the Vizier for the protection of the Nabob Fyzoola
Khân as they, the said government, had before claimed from a similar attestation of Sir
Robert Barker to assist the Vizier in extirpating the whole nation of the said Fyzoola Khân,
—more especially as in the case of Sir Robert Barker it was contrary to the remonstrances
of the then administration, and the furthest from the intentions of the said Barker himself,
that his attestation should involve the Company, but the attestation of Colonel Champion
was authorized by all the powers of the government, as a "sanction" intended "to add
validity" to the treaty; that they, the said government, and in particular the said Warren
Hastings, as the first executive member of the same, were bound by the ties of natural
justice duly to exercise the aforesaid right, if need were; and that their duty so to interfere
was more particularly enforced by the spirit of the censures passed both by the Directors
and Proprietors in the Rohilla war, and the satisfaction expressed by the Directors "in the
honorable end put to that war."

PART III.

GUARANTY OF THE TREATY OF LALL-DANG.

I. That during the life of the Vizier Sujah ul Dowlah, and for some time after his death,
under his son and successor, Asoph ul Dowlah, the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did remain
without disturbance or molestation; that he did all the while imagine his treaty to be under
the sanction of the Company, from Colonel Champion's affixing his signature thereto as a
witness, "which signature, as he [Fyzoola Khân] supposed," (rendered the Company the
arbitrators) between the Vizier and himself, in case of disputes; and that, being "a man of
sense, but extreme pusillanimity, a good farmer, fond of wealth, not possessed of the
passion of ambition," he did peaceably apply himself to "improve the state of his country,

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