ained my views; or I will have it under my
aumil. I am obedient to your pleasure."

Your Lordships here see the Begum a suppliant to have her jaghire
restored, (after entering into some engagement that might have been
required of her,) and the Nabob, in a tone equally suppliant, expressing
his consent, at least, that her request should be complied with, if the
command of Mr. Hastings could be procured.

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My Lords, in order to save your Lordships' time, and that I might not
overload this business, I did not intend to have troubled you with any
observations upon this part of it; but the charge of falsehood which the
prisoner at your bar has had the audacity to bring against us has
induced me to lay it more particularly before, you. We have now done
with it; but before we retire, your Lordships will permit me to
recapitulate briefly the substance of what has now been urged respecting
his conduct towards these miserable women. We accuse him of reiterated
breaches of the orders of the Court of Directors, both in the letter and
spirit of them, and of his contempt of the opinions which his colleagues
in office had formed of them. We charge him with the aggravation of
these delinquencies, by the oppression and ruin which they brought upon
the family of the Nabob, by the infraction of treaties, and by the
disrepute which in his person was sustained by the government he
represented, and by the stain left upon the justice, honor, and good
faith of the English nation. We charge him with their farther
aggravation by sundry false pretences alleged by him in justification of
this conduct, the pretended reluctance of the Nabob, the fear of
offending him, the suggestion of the Begums having forgotten and
forgiven the wrongs they had suffered, and of the danger of reviving
their discontent by any attempt to redress them, and by his insolent
language, that the majesty of justice with which he impudently invests
himself was only to be approached with solicitation. We have farther
stated, that the pretence that he was only concerned in this business as
an accessary is equally false; it being, on the contrary, notorious,
that the Nabob was the accessary, forced into the service, and a mere
instrument in his hands, and that he and Sir Elijah Impey (whose
employment in this business we stated as a farther aggravation) were the
authors and principal agents. And we farther contend, that each of the