The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

X. That, all relief being denied to the Nabob, in the manner and on the grounds aforesaid,
the demands of the Company on the said Nabob in the year following, that is to say, in the
year 1780, did amount to the enormous sum of 1,400,000l. sterling, and the distress of the
province did rapidly increase.

XI. That the Nabob, on the 24th of February of the same year, did again write to the
Governor-General, the said Warren Hastings, a letter, in which he expressed his constant
friendship to the Company, and his submission and obedience to their orders, and asserting
that he had not troubled them with any of his difficulties, trusting they would learn them
from other quarters, and that he should be relieved by their friendship. "But," he says,
"when the knife had penetrated to the bone, and I was surrounded with such heavy
distresses that I could no longer live in expectations, I then wrote an account of my
difficulties. The answer I have received to it is such that it has given me inexpressible grief
and affliction. I never had the least idea or expectation from you and the Council that you
would have given your orders in so afflicting a manner, in which you never before wrote,
and I could never have imagined. I have delivered up all my private papers to him [the
Resident], that, after examining my receipts and expenses, he may take whatever remains.
That, as I know it to be my duty to satisfy you [the Company and Council], I have not failed
to obey in any instance; but requested of him that it might be done so as not to distress me
in my necessary expenses. There being no other funds but those for the expenses of my
mutseddies [clerks and accountants], household expenses, and servants, &c., he demanded
these in such a manner, that, being remediless, I was obliged to comply with what he
required. He has accordingly stopped the pensions of my old servants for thirty years,
whether sepoys [soldiers], mutseddies [secretaries and accountants], or household
servants, and the expenses of my family and kitchen, together with the jaghires of my

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