The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

resolutions of censure against the said Warren Hastings, and amongst others to a resolution
to recall the said Warren Hastings, and remove him from his office of Governor-General, to
answer for sundry great crimes and delinquencies by him committed in his said office. And
on these accounts it appears probable that the said resignation was tendered and accepted as
a consideration for some beneficial concessions made in consequence thereof to the said
Warren Hastings in his said dangerous and desperate condition.

And the said refusal was also an act of great disrespect to the Court of Directors and to his
Majesty, and, by rendering abortive their said measures, solemnly and deliberately taken,
and ratified and confirmed by his Majesty, tended to bring the authority of the Court of
Directors and of his Majesty into contempt.

And the said refusal was an injury to General Clavering.

And was also, or might have been, a great injury to Edward Wheler, Esquire.

And was an act of signal treachery to Lauchlan Macleane, Esquire, as also to Mr. Vansittart
and Mr. Stewart, whose honors and veracity were thereby brought into question, doubt, and
suspicion.

And the said refusal was prejudicial to the affairs of the servants of the Company in India,
by shaking the confidence to be placed in their agents by those persons with whom it might
be for their interests to negotiate on any matter of importance, and by thus subjecting the
communication of persons abroad with those at home to difficulties not known before.

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