1778. On the 3d of September, the Nabob is said to have relinquished all
concern with Sudder ul Huk Khan. In a letter received the 30th of
September, (that is, about twenty-seven days after the date of Mr.
Hastings's order,) you will see how this pretended order was managed.
Sudder ul Huk Khan thus writes, in a letter received the 30th of
September.

"Yatibar Ali Khan," (Munny Begum's chief eunuch,) "from the amount
of salaries of the officers of the adawlut and foujdarry, which
before my arrival he had received for two months from the sircar,
made disbursements according to his own pleasure. He had before
caused the sum of 7,400 rupees, on account of the price of mine and
my peshcar's khelauts, to be carried to account, and now
continually sends a man to demand from me 4,300 and odd rupees, as
a balance of the price of khelauts, and constantly presses me to
take it from the amount of the salaries of the officers of the
adawlut and foujdarry and send it to him; and I shall be under the
necessity of complying. I mention this for your information."

My Lords, you see again how Mr. Hastings's pretended orders were obeyed.
They were orders addressed to the Nabob, whom he knew to be nothing, and
who could neither control or take the least share in the execution of
them; but he leaves the thing loose as to Manny Begum and her eunuchs,
who he knew could alone carry them into effect. Your Lordships see that
the first use made of the restored authority of the Nabob was, under
various pretences, to leave the salaries of the officers of government
unprovided for, to rob the public treasury, and to give the Company's
money to the eunuchs, who were acting in the manner I have stated to
you.

Information of these proceedings reaches Calcutta; a regular complaint
from a person in the highest situation in the government is made, and
the Governor-General is obliged again to take up the matter; and I
shall now read to your Lordships a letter of the 10th of October, 1778,
which contains a representation so pointed and so very just of the fatal
effects which his interference in the administration of justice had
produced as not to stand in need of any comment from me. It speaks too
plainly to require any.

_The Governor-General's Letter to the Nabob_.

"At your Excellency's request I sent Sudder ul Huk Khan to take on
him the administration of the affairs of the