adawlut and foujdarry,
and hoped by that means not only to have given satisfaction to your
Excellency, but that, through his abilities and experience, these
affairs would have been conducted in such manner as to have secured
the peace of the country and the happiness of the people; and it is
with the greatest concern I learn that this measure is so far from
being attended with the expected advantages, that the affairs both
of the foujdarry and adawlut are in the greatest confusion
imaginable, and daily robberies and murders are perpetrated
throughout the country. This is evidently owing to the want of a
proper authority in the person appointed to superintend them. I
therefore addressed your Excellency on the importance and delicacy
of the affairs in question, and of the necessity of lodging full
power in the hands of the person chosen to administer them, in
reply to which your Excellency expressed sentiments coincident with
mine; notwithstanding which, your dependants and people, actuated
by selfish and avaricious views, have by their interference so
impeded the business as to throw the whole country into a state of
confusion, from which nothing can retrieve it but an unlimited
power lodged in the hands of the superintendent. I therefore
request that your Excellency will give the strictest injunctions to
all your dependants not to interfere in any manner with any matter
relative to the affairs of the adawlut and foujdarry, and that you
will yourself relinquish all interference therein, and leave them
entirely to the management of Sudder ul Huk Khan. This is
absolutely necessary to restore the country to a state of
tranquillity; and if your Excellency has any plan to propose for
the management of the affairs in future, be pleased to communicate
it to me, and every attention shall be paid to give your Excellency
satisfaction."

My Lords, I think I have read enough to you for our present
purpose,--referring your Lordships for fuller information to your
Minutes, page 1086, which I beg you to read with the greatest attention.

I must again beg your Lordships to remark, that, though Mr. Hastings has
the impudence still to pretend that he wishes for the restoration of
order and justice in the country, yet, instead of writing to Munny Begum
upon the business, whom he knew to be the ve