The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

VI. That the said third article of the treaty of Chunar, as it thus stands explained by the said
Hastings himself, doth on the whole appear designed to hold the protection of the Company
in suspense; that it acknowledges all right of interference to cease, but leaves it to our
discretion to determine when it will suit our conveniency to give the Vizier the liberty of
acting on the principles by us already admitted; that it is dexterously constructed to balance
the desires of one man, rapacious and profuse, against the fears of another, described as "of
extreme pusillanimity and wealthy," but that, whatever may have been the secret objects of
the artifice and intrigue confessed to form its very essence, it must on the very face of it
necessarily implicate the Company in a breach of faith, whichever might be the event, as
they must equally break their faith either by withdrawing their guaranty unjustly or by
continuing that guaranty in contradiction to this treaty of Chunar; that it thus tends to hold
out to India, and to the whole world, that the public principle of the English government is a
deliberate system of injustice joined with falsehood, of impolicy, of bad faith, and
treachery; and that the said article is therefore in the highest degree derogatory to the honor,
and injurious to the interests of this nation.

PART VII.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREATY OF CHUNAR.

I. That, in consequence of the treaty of Chunar, the Governor-General, Warren Hastings,
did send official instructions respecting the various articles of the said treaty to the said
Resident, Middleton; and that, in a postscript, the said Hastings did forbid the resumption of
the Nabob Fyzoola Khân's jaghire, "until circumstances may render it more expedient and
easy to be attempted than the present more material pursuits of government make it
appear": thereby intimating a positive limitation of the indefinite term in the explanatory
minute above recited, and confining the suspension of the article to the pressure of the war.

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