The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

innocence, the honorable board would be pleased to grant him [the Resident] permission to
comply with his [Fyzoola Khân's] request of the Company's guarantying his treaty with the
Vizier." And the said Middleton, in excuse for having irregularly "availed himself of the
abilities of Mr. Daniel Barwell," who belonged to another station, and for deputing him
with the aforesaid commission to Rampoor without the previous knowledge of the board,
did urge the plea "of immediate necessity"; and that such plea, if the necessity really existed,
was a strong charge and accusation against the said Warren Hastings, from whose criminal
neglect and concealment the urgency of such necessity did arise.

V. That the Governor-General, Warren Hastings aforesaid, did immediately move, "that the
board approve the deputation of Mr. Daniel Barwell, and that the Resident [Middleton] be
authorized to offer the Company's guaranty for the observance of the treaty subsisting
between the Vizier and Fyzoola Khân, provided it meets with the Vizier's concurrence";
and that the Governor-General's proposition was resolved in the affirmative: the usual
majority of Council then consisting of Richard Barwell, Esquire, a near relation of Daniel
Octavus Barwell aforesaid, and the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, who, in case of an
equality, had the casting voice.

VI. That, on receiving from Mr. Daniel Barwell full and early assurance of Fyzoola Khân's
"having preserved every article of his treaty inviolate," the Resident, Middleton, applied for
the Vizier's concurrence, which was readily obtained,—the Vizier, however, "premising,
that he gave his consent, taking it for granted, that, on Fyzoola Khân's receiving the treaty
and khelaut [or robe of honor], he was to make him a return of the complimentary presents
usually offered on such occasions, and of such an amount as should be a manifestation of
Fyzoola Khân's due sense of his friendship, and suitable to his Excellency's rank to

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