The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

or to join with them, and act by their advice, and appoint creatures of their recommendation
to the different offices, from which they might draw profit to themselves."

XXI. That, in a subsequent letter to the Governor, the said Superintendent of Justice did
inform him, the said Warren Hastings, of the audacious and corrupt manner in which, by
violence, fraud, and forgery, the eunuchs of Munny Begum had abused the Nabob's name,
to deprive the judicial and executory officers of justice of the salaries which they ought to
have drawn from the Company's treasury, in the following words: "The Begum's ministers,
before my arrival, with the advice of their counsellors, caused the Nabob to sign a receipt,
in consequence of which they received, at two different times, near 50,000 rupees [5,000l.],
in the name of the officers of the Adawlut, Phousdary, &c., from the Company's sircars;
and having drawn up an account-current in the manner they wished, they had got the Nabob
to sign it, and sent it to me." And in the same letter he asserts, "that these people had the
Nabob entirely in their power."

XXII. That the said Warren Hastings, upon this representation, did, notwithstanding his late
pretended opinion of the fitness and the right of the Nabob to the sole administration of his
own affairs, authoritatively forbid him from any interference therein, and ordered that the
whole should be left to the magistrate aforesaid; to which the Nabob did, notwithstanding
his pretended independence, yield an immediate and unreserved submission: for the said
Hastings's order being given on the 1st of September at Calcutta, he received an answer
from Moorshedabad on the 3d, in the following terms: "Agreeably to your pleasure, I have
relinquished all concern with the affairs of the Phousdary and Adawlut, leaving the entire
management in Sudder ul Hock's hands." Which said circumstance, as well as many others,
abundantly proves that all the Nabob's actions were in truth and fact entirely governed by

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