The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

occasions, however it might on the present be expected," Mr. Daniel Barwell aforesaid
(knowing, probably, the disposition and views of the then actual government at Calcutta)
did not, even at first, decline the said offer, but, as he was not empowered to accept it, did
immediately propose taking a bond for the amount, until the pleasure of the board should be
known.

That the offer was accordingly communicated by the said Barwell to the Resident,
Middleton, to be by him, the Resident, referred to the board, and that it was so referred;
that, in reply to the said reference of the Resident, Middleton, the Governor-General,
Warren Hastings, did move and carry a vote of Council, "authorizing Mr. Middleton to
accept the offer made by Fyzoola Khân to the Company of one lac of rupees," without
assigning any reason whatever in support of the said motion, notwithstanding it was
objected by a member of the board, "that, if the measure was right, it became us to adopt it
without such a consideration," and that "our accepting of the lac of rupees as a recompense
for our interposition is beneath the dignity of this government [of Calcutta], and will
discredit us in the eyes of the Indian powers."

That the acceptance of the said sum, in this circumstance, was beneath the dignity of the
said government, and did tend so to discredit us; and that the motion of the said Hastings
for such acceptance was therefore highly derogatory to the honor of this nation.

X. That the aforesaid member of the Council did further disapprove altogether of the
guaranty, "as unnecessary"; and that another member of Council, Richard Barwell, Esquire,
the near relation of Daniel Octavus Barwell, hereinbefore named, did declare, (but after the
said guaranty had taken place,) that "this government [of Calcutta] was in fact engaged by
Colonel Champion's signature being to the treaty with Fyzoola Khân." That the said

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