Excerpt from The Works, Vol. 7 of 8: Correspondence the Right Honourable Edmund Burke That the prince aforesaid, or nabob of Oude, did, in humble and submissive terms, supplicate the said Warren Hastings to be relieved from a body 'of troops, whose licentious behaviour he com plained of, and who were stationed in his country without any obligation by treaty to maintain them; pleading the failure of harvest and the prevalence of famine in his country a compliance with which request by the said Warren Hastings was refused in unbecoming, offensive, and insulting language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.