The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

2d. That, in justifying this breach of the Company's faith, the said Hastings doth wholly
abandon his second peremptory demand for the three thousand horse, and the protest
consequent thereon; and the said Hastings doth thereby himself condemn the violence and
injustice of the same.

3dly. That, in recurring to the original demand of five thousand horse as the ground of his
justification, the said Hastings doth falsely assert "the engagement in the treaty to be
literally FIVE thousand horse and foot," whereas it is in fact for TWO or THREE thousand
men; and the said Hastings doth thereby wilfully attempt to deceive and mislead his
employers, which is an high crime and misdemeanor in a servant of so great trust.

4thly. That, with a view to his further justification, the said Hastings doth advance a
principle that "a scrupulous attention to the literal expression" of a guarantied treaty
"leaves" to the person so observing the same "but little claim to the exertions" of a guaranty
on his behalf; that such a principle is utterly subversive of all faith of guaranties, and is
therefore highly criminal in the first executive member of a government that must
necessarily stand in that mutual relation to many.

5thly. That the said Hastings doth profess his opinion of an article to which he gave an
"instant and unqualified assent," that it was a measure "by which neither the Vizier's nor the
Company's interests would be promoted," but from which, without some interposition, "ill
effects" must be expected; and that the said Hastings doth thereby charge himself with a
high breach of trust towards his employers.

6thly. That the said Hastings having thus confessed that consciously and wilfully (from

what motives he hath not chosen to confess) he did give his formal sanction to a measure

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