Beg Khan,--this man whom he represents to be the most infamous and
scandalous of mankind, and of whom he, nevertheless, at the same time
declares, that his only support with the Vizier was the support which
he, Warren Hastings, as representative of the English government, gave
him.

We will now read a paper which perhaps ought not to have been received
in evidence, but which we were willing to enter in your minutes as
evidence, in order that everything should come before you. Your
Lordships have heard the Nabob speak of his misery, distress, and
oppression; but here he makes a complete defeasance, as it were, of the
whole charge, a direct disavowal of every one of the complaints, and
particularly that of having never received an answer to these
complaints. Oh, think, I say, my Lords, of the degraded, miserable, and
unhappy state to which human nature may be reduced, when you hear this
unhappy man declare that all the charges which we have made upon this
subject relative to him, and which are all either admitted by him or
taken from his own representation, are now stated by him in a paper
before you to be all false, and that there is not a word of the
representation which he had made of Mr. Hastings that has the least
truth in it! Your Lordships will find this in that collection of various
papers which ought to be preserved and put into every museum in Europe,
as one of the most extraordinary productions that was ever exhibited to
the world.

_Papers received the 8th of March, 1788, and translated pursuant to
an Order of the Governor-General in Council, dated the 21th of
April, 1788, under the Seal of His Excellency the Nabob Asoph ul
Dowlah, Asoph Jah Bahadur, Vizier ul Momalik._

"I have at this time learnt that the gentlemen in power in England,
upon the suspicion that Mr. Hastings, during his administration,
acted contrary to the rules of justice and impartiality, and,
actuated by motives of avidity, was inimical towards men without
cause; that he broke such engagements and treaties as had been made
between the Company and other chiefs; that he extended the hand of
oppression over the properties of men, tore up the roots of
security and prosperity from the land, and rendered the ryots and
subjects destitute by force and extortion.--As this accusation, in
fact, is destitute of uprightness and void of truth, therefore,
with a view to show