The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

mentioned treaties.

That the said Warren Hastings was duly and regularly informed of the progress of the war
against the Ranna, and of every event thereof; notwithstanding which, he not only neglected
in any manner to interfere therein in favor of the said Ranna, or to use any endeavors to
prevent the infraction of the treaty, but gave considerable countenance and encouragement
to Mahdajee Sindia in his violation of it, both by the residence of the British minister in the
Mahratta camp, and by the approbation shown by the said Warren Hastings to the promises
made by his agent of observing the strictest neutrality, notwithstanding he was in justice
bound, and stood pledged by the most solemn and sacred engagements, to protect and
preserve the said Ranna from those enemies, whose resentment he had provoked only by
his adherence to the interests of the British nation.

That, in the only attempt made to sound the disposition of Mahdajee Sindia relative to a
pacification between him and the Ranna of Gohud, on the 14th of May, 1783, Mr.
Anderson, in obedience to the orders he had received, did clearly and explicitly declare to
Bhow Bucksey, the minister of Mahdajee Sindia, the sentiments of the said Warren
Hastings in the words following: "That it was so far from your [the said Hastings's]
meaning to intercede in his [the said Ranna's] favor, that I only desired him to sound
Sindia's sentiments, and, in case he was desirous of peace, to mention what I had said; but if
he seemed to prefer carrying on the war, I begged that he would not mention a syllable of
what had passed, but let the matter drop entirely."

That it afterwards appeared, in a minute of the said Hastings in Council at Fort William, on
the 22d of September, 1783, that he promised, at the instance of a member of the Council,
to write to Lieutenant James Anderson in favor of the Ranna of Gohud, and lay his letter

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