must now tell you, was accordingly reinstated in
all his offices, and the Nabob was reduced to the situation, as Mr.
Hastings upon another occasion describes it, of a mere cipher. But mark
what followed,--mark what this Sir John D'Oyly is made to tell you, or
what Mr. Hastings tells you for him: for whether Sir John D'Oyly has
written this for Mr. Hastings, or Mr. Hastings for Sir John D'Oyly, I do
not know; because they seem, as somebody said of two great friends, that
they had but one will, one bed, and one hat between them. These
gentlemen who compose Mr. Hastings's Council have but one style of
writing among them; so that it is impossible for you to determine by
which of the masters of this Roman school any paper was
written,--whether by D'Oyly, by Shore, or by Hastings, or any other of
them. They have a style in common, a kind of bank upon which they have a
general credit; and you cannot tell to whose account anything is to be
placed.

But to proceed.--Sir John D'Oyly says there, that the Nabob is reduced
again to a cipher. Now hear what he afterwards says. "About the month of
June, 1781, Mr. Hastings, being then at Moorshedabad, communicated to me
his intention of performing his promise to the Nabob, by restoring him
to the management of his own affairs,"--that is to say, by restoring
Munny Begum again, and by turning out Mahomed Reza Khan. Your Lordships
see that he communicated privately his intentions to Sir John D'Oyly,
without communicating one word of them to his colleagues in the Supreme
Council, and without entering any minute in the records of the Council,
by which it could be known to the Directors.

Lastly, in order to show you in what manner the Nabob was to be restored
to his power, I refer your Lordships to the order he gave to Sir John
D'Oyly for investigating the Nabob's accounts, and for drawing up
articles of instructions for the Nabob's conduct in the management of
his affairs. You will there see clearly how he was restored: that is to
say, that he was taken out of the hands of the first Mussulman in that
country, the man most capable of administering justice, and whom the
Company had expressly ordered to be invested with that authority, and to
put him into the hands of Sir John D'Oyly. Is Sir John D'Oyly a
Mussulman? Is Sir John D'Oyly fit to be at the head of such a
government? What was there that any person could see about him, that
entitled him to or made him a fit person to be intrusted w