conclusion they drew was founded upon the premises; it
was very just and logical; for they declared that he was a mere cipher.
They commended Mr. Hastings's delicacy, though they did not imitate it;
but they pronounced sentence of deposition upon the said Nabob, and they
declared that any letter or paper that was produced from him could not
be considered as an act of government. So effectually was he removed by
the judges out of the way, that no minority, no insanity, no physical
circumstances, not even death itself, could put a man more completely
out of sight. They declare that they would consider his letters in no
other light than as the letters of the Company, represented by the
Governor-General and Council. Thus, then, we find the Nabob legally
dead.

We find next, that he was politically dead. Mr. Hastings, not satisfied
with the affidavit he made in court, has thought proper upon record to
inform the Company and the world of what he considered him to be civilly
and politically.

_Minute entered by the Governor-General._

"_The Governor-General._--I object to this motion," (a motion
relative to the trial above alluded to,) "because I do not
apprehend that the declaration of the judges respecting the Nabob's
sovereignty will involve this government in any difficulties with
the French or other foreign nations." (Mark, my Lords, these
political effects.) "How little the screen of the Nabob's name has
hitherto availed will appear in the frequent and inconclusive
correspondence which has been maintained with the foreign
settlements, the French especially, since the Company have thought
proper to stand forth in their real character in the exercise of
the dewanny. From that period the government of these provinces has
been wholly theirs; nor can all the subtleties and distinctions of
political sophistry conceal the possession of power, where the
exercise of it is openly practised and universally felt in its
operation. In deference to the commands of the Company, we have
generally endeavored, in all our correspondence with foreigners, to
evade the direct avowal of our possessing the actual rule of the
country,--employing the unapplied term government, for the power to
which we exacted their submission; but I do not remember any
instance, and I hope none will be found, of our having been so
disingenuous as to