The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

That, after the said judges had delivered their opinion, "that the place and office of
Governor-General of this Presidency had not yet been vacated by Warren Hastings, and that
the actual assumption of the government by the member of the Council next in succession
to Mr. Hastings, in consequence of any deduction which could be made from the papers
communicated to them, would be absolutely illegal," and after the said General Clavering
and Philip Francis, Esquire, had signified to the said Warren Hastings, by a letter dated the
21st of June, "their intention to acquiesce in the said opinion of the judges," and when the
differences in the Supreme Council were by these means composed, and the calamities
consequent thereon were avoided, the said Warren Hastings and Richard Barwell, Esquires,
did once more endanger the public peace and security by other illegal, unwarrantable, and
unprovoked acts of violence: having omitted to summon either the said General Clavering
or the said Philip Francis, Esquire, to Council; and having, in a Council held thus privately
and clandestinely and contrary to law, on the 22d day of June, come to the following
resolutions, viz.

"Resolved, That, by the said acts, orders, and declarations of Lieutenant-General John
Clavering, recited in the foregoing papers," (meaning the proceedings of General Clavering
in his separate Council on the 20th of June,) "he has actually usurped and assumed and
taken possession of the place and office of Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort
William in Bengal, granted by the act of the 13th of his present Majesty to Warren
Hastings, Esquire.

"Resolved, That Lieutenant-General John Clavering has thereby relinquished, resigned,
surrendered, and vacated the office of Senior Counsellor of Fort William in Bengal.

Resolved, That Lieutenant-General John Clavering has thereby relinquished, resigned,

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