The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

the remonstrances aforesaid, and, to prevent the same in future, having denounced
vengeance on those concerned therein, did, for the purpose of keeping in his own power all
representations of the state of the court and country aforesaid, and to subject both the one
and the other to his own arbitrary will, and to draw to himself and to his creatures the
management of the Nabob's revenues, in defiance of the orders of the Court of Directors, a
second time recall Mr. Bristow, the Company's Resident, from the court of Oude,—having
once before recalled him, as the said Directors express themselves, "without the shadow of
a charge being exhibited against him," and having, on the occasion and time now stated,
produced no specific charge against the said Resident; and he, the said Hastings, did
appoint Nathaniel Middleton, Esquire, to succeed him,—it being his declared principle, that
he must have a person of his own confidence in that situation.

XVI. That the said Warren Hastings, after he had refused all relief to the distresses of the
Nabob in the manner aforesaid, and had described those who advised the representation of
the grievances of Oude as incendiaries, did himself, in a minute of the 21st May, 1781,
describe that province "as fallen into a state of great disorder and confusion, and its
resources in an extraordinary degree diminished,"—and did state, that his presence in the
said province was requested by the Nabob, and that, unless some effectual measures were
taken for his relief, he [the Nabob] must be under the necessity of leaving his country, and
coming down to Calcutta, to represent the situation of his government. And Mr. Wheler did
declare that the Governor-General's representation of the state of that province "was but too
well founded, and was convinced that it would require his utmost abilities and powers,
applied and exercised on the spot, to restore it to its former good order and affluence."

XVII. That the said Warren Hastings, in consequence of the minute aforesaid, did grant to

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