e a more attached or
more disinterested counsellor. Although I desire to receive your
letters frequently, yet, as many matters will occur which cannot so
easily be explained by letter as by conversation, I desire that you
will on such occasions give your orders to him respecting such
points as you may desire to have imparted to me; and I, postponing
every other concern, will give you an immediate and the most
satisfactory reply concerning them."

My Lords, here is a man who is to administer his own affairs, who has
arrived at sufficient age to supersede the counsel and advice of the
great Mahometan doctors and the great nobility of the country, and he is
put under the most absolute guardianship of Sir John D'Oyly. But Mr.
Hastings has given Sir John D'Oyly a great character. I cannot confirm
it, because I can confirm the character of none of Mr. Hastings's
instruments. They must stand forth here, and defend their own character
before you.

Your Lordships will now be pleased to advert to another circumstance in
this transaction. You see here 40,000_l._ a year offered by this man for
his redemption. "I will give you," he says, "40,000_l._ a year to have
the management of my own affairs." Good heavens! Here is a man, who,
according to Mr. Hastings's assertion, had an indisputable right to the
management of his own affairs, but at the same time was notoriously so
little fit to have the management of them as to be always under some
corrupt tyranny or other, offers 40,000_l._ a year out of his own
revenues to be left his own master, and to be permitted to have the
disposal of the remainder. Judge you of the bribery, rapine, and
peculation which here stare you in the face. Judge of the nature and
character of that government for the management of which 40,000_l._, out
of 160,000_l._ a year of its revenue, is offered by a subordinate to the
supreme authority of the country. This offer shows that at this time the
Nabob had it not himself. Who had it? Sir John D'Oyly; he is brought
forward as the person to whom is given the management of the whole.
Munny Begum had the management before. But, whether it be an Englishman,
a Mussulman, a white man or a black man, a white woman or a black woman,
it is all Warren Hastings.

With respect to the four lacs of rupees, he gets Sir John D'Oyly, in the
narrative that he makes before the House of Commons, positively to deny
in the strongest manner, and he