The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 · Edmund Burke
HENRY DUNDAS, WALSINGHAM, W.W. GRENVILLE, MULGRAVE.
And if any of our servants, or others, being under our protection, shall be discovered in any respect counteracting these orders, we strictly enjoin you to take the first opportunity of sending them home to England, to be punished as guilty of disobedience of orders, and no protection or assistance of the Company shall be given for the recovery of any loans connected with such transactions. Your particular attention to this subject is strictly enjoined; and any connivance on your parts to a breach of our orders upon it will incur our highest displeasure. In order to put an end to those intrigues which have been so successfully carried on at the Nabob's durbar, we repeat our prohibition in the strongest terms respecting any intercourse between British subjects and the Nabob and his family; as we are convinced that such an intercourse has been carried on greatly to the detriment and expense of the Nabob, and merely to the advantage of individuals. We therefore direct that all persons who shall offend against the letter and spirit of this necessary order, whether in the Company's service or under their protection, be forthwith sent to England. Approved by the Board. HENRY DUNDAS, WALSINGHAM, W.W. GRENVILLE, MULGRAVE. WHITEHALL, 15th Oct. 1784. * * * * * _Extract from the Representation of the Court of Directors of the East India Company._
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