The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

public faith of the Company and the nation, in a manner (as the said Hastings himself
remarked) "equivalent to an engagement with the Company's seal affixed to it," and more
particularly binding the said Hastings personally to exact a due observance of the
guarantied treaty, especially to protect the Nabob Fyzoola Khân against any arbitrary
construction or unwarranted requisition of the Vizier.

PART IV.

THANKS OF THE BOARD TO FYZOOLA KHÂN.

I. That, soon after the completion of the guaranty, in the same year, 1778, intelligence was
received in India of a war between England and France; that, on the first intimation thereof,
the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, "being indirectly sounded," did show much "promptness to
render the Company any assistance within the bounds of his finances and ability"; and that
by the suggestion of the Resident, Middleton, hereinbefore named, he, the Nabob Fyzoola
Khân, in a letter to the Governor-General and Council, did make a voluntary "offer to
maintain two thousand cavalry (all he had) for our service," "though he was under no
obligation to furnish the Company with a single man."

II. That the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did even "anticipate the wishes of the board"; and that,
"on an application made to him by Lieutenant-Colonel Muir," the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did,
"without hesitation or delay," furnish him, the said Muir, with five hundred of his best
cavalry.

That the said conduct of the Nabob Fyzoola Khân was communicated by the Company's
servants both to each other and to their employers, with expressions of "pleasure" and
"particular satisfaction," as an event "even surpassing their expectations"; that the Governor-
General, Warren Hastings, was officially requested to convoy "the thanks of the board"; and

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