ce. The principal, if not the sole, object of the
whole operation appears from the result of it. Sir John D'Oyly, a
gentleman in whom Mr. Hastings places particular confidence, succeeds to
the office of Mahomed Reza Khan, and to the same control over the
Nabob's expenses. Into the hands of this gentleman the Nabob's stipend
was _to be immediately paid, as every intermediate channel would be an
unavoidable cause of delay_; and to _his_ advice the Nabob was required
to give the same attention as if it were given by Mr. Hastings himself.
One of the conditions prescribed to the Nabob was, that he should admit
no Englishman to his presence without previously consulting Sir John
D'Oyly; _and he must forbid any person of that nation to be intruded
without his introduction_. On these arrangements it need only be
observed, that a measure which sets out with professing to relieve the
Nabob from a state of _perpetual pupilage_ concludes with delivering not
only his fortune, but his person, to the custody of a particular friend
of Mr. Hastings.

The instructions given to the Nabob contain other passages that merit
attention. In one place Mr. Hastings tells him, "You have offered to
give up the sum of four lacs of rupees to be allowed the free use of the
remainder; but this we have refused." In another he says, that, "_as
many matters will occur which cannot be so easily explained by letter as
by conversation_, I desire that you will on such occasions give your
orders to Sir John D'Oyly respecting such points as you may desire to
have imparted to _me_." The offer alluded to in the first passage does
not appear in the Nabob's letters, therefore must have been in
conversation, and declined by Mr. Hastings without consulting his
colleague. A refusal of it might have been proper; but it supposes a
degree of incapacity in the Nabob not to be reconciled to the principles
on which Mahomed Reza Khan was removed from the management of his
affairs. Of the matters alluded to in the second, and which, it is said,
_could not be so easily explained by letters as in conversation_, no
explanation is given. Your Committee will therefore leave them, as Mr.
Hastings has done, to the opinion of the House.

As soon as the Nabob's requisition was communicated to the board, it was
moved and resolved that Mahomed Reza Khan should be divested of his
office; and the House have seen in what manner it was disposed of. The
Nabob had stated various complaints a