iven satisfaction to your
Excellency, but that through his abilities and experience these affairs
would have been conducted in such manner as to have secured the peace of
the country and the happiness of the people; and it is with the greatest
concern I learn that this measure is so far from being attended with the
expected advantages, that the affairs both of the Foujdarry and Adawlut
are in the greatest confusion imaginable, and daily robberies and
murders are perpetrated throughout the country. This is evidently owing
to the want of a proper authority in the person appointed to superintend
them. I therefore addressed your Excellency on the importance and
delicacy of the affairs in question, and of the necessity of lodging
full power in the hands of the person chosen to administer them. In
reply to which your Excellency expressed sentiments coincident with
mine. Notwithstanding which, your dependants and people, actuated by
selfish and avaricious views, have by their interference so impeded the
business as to throw the whole country into a state of confusion, from
which nothing can retrieve it but an unlimited power lodged in the hands
of the superintendent. I therefore request that your Excellency will
give the strictest injunctions to all your dependants not to interfere
in any manner with any matter relative to the affairs of the Adawlut and
Foujdarry, and that you will yourself relinquish all interference
therein, and leave them entirely to the management of Sudder ul Huk
Khan. This is absolutely necessary to restore the country to a state of
tranquillity."

My Lords, what evidence do we produce to your Lordships of the
consequences of Mr. Hastings's corrupt measures? His own. He here gives
you the state into which the country was thrown by the criminal
interference of the wicked woman whom he had established in power,
totally superseding the regular judicial authority of the country, and
throwing everything into confusion. As usual, there is such irregularity
in his conduct, and his crimes are so multiplied, that all the
contrivances of ingenuity are unable to cover them. Now and then he
comes and betrays himself; and here he confesses you his own weakness,
and the effects of his own corruption: he had appointed Munny Begum to
this office of power, he dare not say a word to her upon her abuse of
it, but he lays the whole upon the Nabob. When the Chief-Justice
complains that these crimes were the consequence of Mu