The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

dismiss him from their service.

That the said Hastings, knowing that the said Sulivan's appointment had been condemned
and revoked by the Court of Directors, and pretending that on the 15th of March, 1783, he
did not know that the said Sulivan was dismissed from the Company's service, though that
fact was known at Madras on the 31st of the preceding January, did recommend the said
Sulivan to be ambassador at the court of Nizam Ali Khân, Subahdar of the Deccan, in
defiance of the authority and orders of the Court of Directors.

That, even admitting, what is highly improbable, that the dismission of the said Sulivan
from the service of the said Company was not known at Calcutta in forty-three days from
Madras, the last-mentioned nomination of the said Sulivan was made at least in contempt of
the censure already expressed by the Court of Directors at his former appointment to the
Durbar of the Nabob of Arcot, and which was certainly known to the said Hastings.

XIV.—RANNA OF GOHUD.

That on the 2d of December, 1779, the Governor-General and Council of Fort William, at
the special recommendation and instance of Warren Hastings, Esquire, then Governor-
General, and contrary to the declared opinion and protest of three of the members of the
Council, viz., Philip Francis and Edward Wheler, Esquires, who were present, and of Sir
Eyre Coote, who was absent, (by whose absence the casting voice of the said Warren
Hastings, Esquire, prevailed,) did conclude a treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance,
offensive and defensive, with a Hindoo prince, called the Ranna of Gohud, for the express

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