"orders and directions of the Council, without

any delay, as long as I live, I have, agreeably "to those orders, delivered up all my private

papers to him, that when he shall have exa"mined my receipts and expences, he may "take whatever remains. 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 neces

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sary expences, there being no other fund but "those for the expences, of mutseddies, house"hold expences 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

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my old servants of thirty years, whether se

poys, mutseddies, or household servants; and "the expenses of my family and kitchen, "together with the jaghires of my grandmother, "mother and aunts, and of my brothers and "dependents, which were for their support. "I had raised 1,500 horse, and three battalions "of sepoys to attend upon me; but as I have

no resources to support them, I have been "obliged to remove the people stationed in the "Mahals, and to send his people into the "Mahals, so that I have not now one single "servant about me.. Should I mention what

"further difficulties I have been reduced to, it "it would lay me open to contempt; although "I have willingly assented to this which brings "such distress on me, and have in a manner

altogether ruined myself; yet I failed not to "do it for this reason, because it was for your "satisfaction, and that of the Council; and I

am patient, and even thankful in this condi"tion, but I cannot imagine for what cause you "have conceived displeasure against me, from "the commencement of my administration. In

every circumstance, I received strength and "security from your favour, and that of the "Council; and in every instance you and the "Council have shewn your friendship and "affection for me; but at present, that you have "sent these orders, I am greatly perplexed."

We will not trouble your Lordships with the remainder of the letter, which is all in the same style of distress and affliction; and of the abject dependence of a man who considers himself as insulted, robbed, and ruined in that state of dependence.

In addition to the evidence contained in this letter, your Lordships will be pleased to recollect the Nabob's letter which we read to your Lordships yesterday, the humble and abject style of which, you will never forget. Oh! con

sider, my Lords, this instance of the fate of human greatness! You must remember, that there is not a trace any where in any of the various trunks of Mr. Hastings, that he ever condescended so much as to give an answer to the suppliant letters of that unhappy man. There was no mode of indignity with which he did not treat his family-there was no mode of indignity with which he did not treat his person

there was no mode of indignity with which he did not treat his minister Hyder Beg Khan ;→ this man whom he represents to be the most infamous and scandalous of mankind; and of whom he, nevertheless, at the same time, declares, that his only support with the Vizier, was the support which he, Warren Hastings, as representative of the English government, gave I him:

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We will now read a paper which, perhaps, bought not to have been received in evidence ; but which we were willing to enter in your Minutes as évidence, in order that every thing should come before you. Your Lordships have heard the Nabob speak of his misery, distress, and oppression; but here he makes a complete defeasance as it were of the whole charge, a directa disavowal of every one of the complaints, and particularly that of having never received Can answer to these complaints. Oh! think, I -say, my Lords, of the degraded, miserable and Lobnes unhappy

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unhappy state to which human nature may

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reduced, when you hear this unhappy man declare, that all the charges which we have made upon this subject relative to him, and which are all either admitted by him, or taken from his own representation, are now stated by him in a paper before you to be all false, and that there is not a word of the representation which he had made of Mr. Hastings, that has the least truth in it. Your Lordships will find this in that collection of various papers, which ought to be preserved and put into every museum in Europe, as one of the most extraordinary productions that was ever exhibited to the world.

Papers received the 8th of March 1788, and translated pursuant to an order of the Governour General in Council, dated the 27th of April 1788, under the seal of his Excellency the Nawaub Azoph ul Dowlah, Azoph Jeh Behodar, Vizier ul Momilek :-" I have at this time learnt "I "that the gentlemen in power in England, upon "the suspicion that Mr. Hastings, during his "administration, acted contrary to the rules "of justice and impartiality, and, actuated by "motives of avidity, was inimical towards men "without cause; that he broke such engage"ments and treaties as has been made between "the Company and other chiefs; that he ex

tended

"tended the hand of oppression over the pro"perties of men; tore up the roots of prospe

rity and security from the land, and rendered "the ryots and subjects destitute, by force and "extortion. As this accusation, in fact, is de"stitute of uprightness, and void of truth, "therefore with a view to shew the truth in its "true colours, I have written upon this sheet "with truth and sincerity, to serve as an evi

dence, and to represent real facts; to serve "also as information and communication, that "Mr. Hastings, from the commencement of his "administration, until his departure for England, "whether during the life-time of the deceased

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Nawoub, of blessed memory, Vizier ul Moulk, Sujah ul Dowlah Rehodar, my father, or during my government, did not at any time "transact, contrary to justice, any matter which "took place from the great friendship between

"me

me and the Company, nor in any business depart from the path of truth and uprightness; but cultivated friendship, with integrity "and sincerity, and in every respect engaged "himself in the duties of friendship, with me,

my ministers, and confidants. I am at all "times, and in every way, pleased with and "thankful for his friendly manners, and qua"lities; and my ministers and confidants, who "have always every one of them been satisfied