dmother, and the Begum, the mother, of the Nabob.

My Lords, you see that all these arrangements have the solemn guaranty
of the Company, and that these women form a very considerable part of
that guaranty; and therefore your Lordships will not treat their
sufferings, inflicted in violation of the Company's own settlement and
guaranty, as a matter of no consideration for you.

But to proceed.--We have proved to your Lordships that the Nabob was
reduced to a state of the greatest possible misery and distress; that
his whole revenue was sequestered into the hands of Mr. Hastings's
agents; that by the treaty of Chunar he was to be relieved from the
expense of a body of troops with which he had been burdened without his
own voluntary consent,--nay, more, the temporary brigade, which Mr.
Hastings proposed to take off, but kept on, which he considers not only
as a great distress to his finances, but a dreadful scourge and calamity
to his country,--there was a whole pension-list upon it, with such
enormous pensions as 18,000_l._ a year to Sir Eyre Coote, and other
pensions, that Mr. Hastings proposed to take off, but did not; that, in
proportion as the Nabob's distress increased, Mr. Hastings's demands
increased too; he was not satisfied, with taking from him for the
Company, but he took from him for himself; he demanded six hundred
thousand pounds as a loan, when he knew he had neither money nor credit.

The consequence of these acts of violence was, that these people,
besieged by the English troops, and deprived of every resource, even of
the funds of charity, by which the protectors of the family, male and
female, might have relieved them, but which the cruel rapacity of Mr.
Hastings had either entirely taken away or greatly diminished, were
reduced to the last extremity of distress.

After the length of time which has elapsed since we first brought these
matters with their proofs, I shall beg leave, before you go to judgment,
to refresh your memory with a recital of a part of that evidence, in
order that your Lordships may again fully and distinctly comprehend the
nature and extent of the oppression, cruelty, and injustice committed by
Mr. Hastings, and by which you may estimate the punishment you will
inflict upon him.

_Letter from Captain Leonard Jaques to Richard Johnson, Esq.,
Resident at the Vizier's Court; March 6th, 1782._

"Sir,--The women belonging to the Khord Mohul complain of their