een patronized and supported by Europeans. All this
happened before Mr. Hastings's departure: so that the whole effect of
the new arrangement of government was known to him before he left
Calcutta. The same pretended remedy was applied. But in fact he left
this woman in the full possession of her power. His last thoughts were
for her; for the justice of the country, for the peace and security of
the people of Bengal, he took no kind of care; these great interests
were left to the mercy of the woman and her European associates.

My Lords, I have taken some pains in giving you this history. I have
shown you his open acts and secret stratagems, in direct rebellion to
the Court of Directors,--his double government, his false pretences of
restoring the Nabob's independence, leading in effect to a most servile
dependence, even to the prohibition of the approach of any one, native
or European, near him, but through the intervention of Sir John D'Oyly.
I therefore again repeat it, that Sir John D'Oyly, and the English
gentlemen who were patronized and countenanced by Mr. Hastings, had
wrought all that havoc in the country before Mr. Hastings left it.

I have particularly dwelt upon the administration of justice, because I
consider it as the source of all good, and the maladministration of it
as the source of all evil in the country. Your Lordships have heard how
it was totally destroyed by Mr. Hastings through Sir John D'Oyly, who
was sent there by him for the purpose of forming a clandestine
government of corruption and peculation. This part of our charge speaks
for itself, and I shall dismiss it with a single observation,--that not
the least trace of an account of all these vast sums of money delivered
into the hands of Sir John D'Oyly for the use of the Nabob appears in
any part of the Company's records. The undeniable inferences to be drawn
from this fact are, first, that, wherever we find concealment of money,
and the ceasing of an account, there has been fraud,--and, secondly,
that, if we find this concealment accompanied with the devastation of a
country, and the extinction of justice in it, that devastation of the
country and that extinction of justice have been the result of that
fraudulent peculation.

I am sure your Lordships will not think that a charge of the
annihilation of administrative justice, in which the happiness and
prosperity of a great body of nobility, of numerous ancient and
respectable families, and