The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Champion, to join his sanction to the accommodations agreed on between the Vizier Sujah
ul Dowlah and the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, to add to their validity,—and on the 6th of
October following did again write to the said Colonel Champion, more explicitly, to join his
sanction, "either by attesting the treaty, or acting as guaranty on the part of the Company
for the performance of it": both which letters, though they did not arrive until after the
actual signature of the said Colonel Champion, do yet incontrovertibly mark the solemn
intention of the said Committee (of which the said Hastings was President) that the sanction
of Colonel Champion's attestation should be regarded as a public, not a private, sanction;
and it was more peculiarly incumbent on such persons, who had been members of the said
Committee, so to regard the same.

IV. That the said Warren Hastings was further guilty of much criminal concealment for the
space of "twelve months," inasmuch as he did not lay before the board the frequent and
urgent solicitations which he, the said Hastings, was continually receiving from the Nabob
Fyzoola Khân, until the 9th of March, 1778; on which day the said Hastings did
communicate to the Council a public letter of the aforesaid Middleton, Resident at Oude,
acquainting the board that he, the said Middleton, taking occasion from a late application of
Fyzoola Khân for the Company's guaranty, had deputed Mr. Daniel Octavus Barwell
(Assistant Resident at Benares, but then on a visit to the Resident Middleton at Lucknow) to
proceed with a special commission to Rampoor, there to inquire on the spot into the truth of
certain reports circulated to the prejudice of Fyzoola Khân, which reports, however, the said
Middleton did afterwards confess himself to have "always" thought "in the highest degree
improbable."

That the said Resident Middleton did "request to know whether, on proof of Fyzoola Khân's

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