The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Nabob of Oude at a place called Chunar, upon the confines of the country of Benares, and
did there enter into a treaty, or pretended treaty, with the said Nabob; one part of which the
said Warren Hastings did pretend was drawn up from a series of requisitions presented to
him by the Nabob, but which requisitions, or any copy thereof, or of any other material
document relative thereto, he did not at the time transmit to the Presidency,—the said
Warren Hastings informing Mr. Wheler, that the Resident, Middleton, had taken the
authentic papers relative to this transaction with him to Lucknow: and it does not appear
that the said Warren Hastings did ever reclaim the said papers, in order to record them at
the Presidency, to be transmitted to the Court of Directors, as it was his duty to do.

XX. That the purport of certain articles of the said treaty, on the part of the Company, was,
that, in consideration of the Nabob's inability (which inability the preamble of the treaty
asserts to have been "repeatedly and urgently represented") to support the expenses of the
temporary brigade, and of three regiments of cavalry, and also of the British officers with
their battalions, and of other gentlemen who were then paid by him, the several corps
aforesaid, and the other gentlemen, (with the exception of the Resident's office then on the
Nabob's list, and a regiment of sepoys for the Resident's guard,) should, after a term of two
and a half months, be no longer at his, the Nabob's, charge: "the true meaning of this being,
that no more troops than one brigade, and the pay and allowances of a regiment of
sepoys," (as aforesaid, to the Resident,) amounting in the whole to 342,000l. a year, should
be paid by the Nabob; and that no officers, troops, or others, should be put upon the
Nabob's establishment, exclusive of those in the said treaty stipulated.

XXI. That the said Warren Hastings did defend and justify the said articles, in which the
troops aforesaid were to be removed from the Nabob's establishment, by declaring as

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