two sons and two daughters; the sons' names
are Mir Sydoc and Mir Sobeem, who are now living; the daughters
were married to Sultan Mirza Daood.

"Baboo Begum, the mother of the Nabob Mobarek ul Dowlah, was the
daughter of Summin Ali Khan, and married Mir Mahomed Jaffier Khan.
The history of Munny Begum is this. At a village called Balkonda,
near Sekundra, there lived a widow, who, from her great poverty,
not being able to bring up her daughter Munny, gave her to a slave
girl belonging to Summin Ali Khan, whose name was Bissoo. During
the space of five years she lived at Shahjehanabad, and was
educated by Bissoo after the manner of a dancing-girl. Afterwards
the Nabob Shamut Jung, upon the marriage of Ikram ul Dowlah,
brother to the Nabob Surajah ul Dowlah, sent for Bissoo Beg's set
of dancing-girls from Shahjehanabad, of which Munny Begum was one,
and allowed them ten thousand rupees for their expenses, to dance
at the wedding. While this ceremony was celebrating, they were kept
by the Nabob; but some months afterwards he dismissed them, and
they took up their residence in this city. Mir Mahomed Jaffier Khan
then took them into keeping, and allowed Munny and her set five
hundred rupees per month, till at length, finding that Munny was
pregnant, he took her into his own house. She gave birth to the
Nabob Nujim ul Dowlah, and in this manner she has remained in the
Nabob's family ever since."

My Lords, I do not mean to detain you long upon this part of the
business, but I have thought it necessary to advert to these
particulars. As to all the rest, the honorable and able Manager who
preceded me has sufficiently impressed upon your Lordships' minds the
monstrous nature of the deposing of the Nabob's mother from the
guardianship of her son, for the purpose of placing this woman there at
the head of all his family and of his domestic concerns in the seraglio
within doors, and at the head of the state without, together with the
disposal of the whole of the revenue that was allowed him. Mr. Hastings
pretends, indeed, to have appointed at the same time a trusty mutsuddy
to keep the accounts of the revenue; but he has since declared that no
account had been kept, and that it was in vain to desire it or to call
for it. This is the state of the case with respect to the appointment of
Munny Begum.

With regard to the rea