The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

XXIX. That soon after the departure of the said Mr. Francis he did again deprive the said
Mahomed Reza Khân of his said offices, and did make several great changes in the
constitution of the criminal justice in the said country; and after having, under pretence of
the Nabob's sufficiency for the management of his own affairs, displaced, without any
specific charge, trial, or inquiry whatsoever, the said Mahomed Reza Khân, he did submit
the said Nabob to the entire direction, in all parts of his concerns, of a Resident of his own
nomination, Sir John D'Oyly, Baronet, and did order an account of the most minute parts of
his domestic economy to be made out, and to be delivered to the said Sir John D'Oyly, in
the following words, contained in a paper by him intituled, INSTRUCTIONS from the
Governor-General to the Nabob Mobarek ul Dowlah respecting his conduct in the
management of his affairs. "You will be pleased to direct your mutseddies to form an
account of the fixed sums of your monthly expenses, such as servants' wages in the
different departments, pensions, and other allowances, as well as of the estimated amount of
variable expenses, to be delivered to Sir John D'Oyly for my inspection. I have given such
orders to Sir John D'Oyly as will enable him to propose to you such reductions of the
pensions and other allowances, and such a distribution of the variable expenses, as shall be
proportionable to the total sum of your monthly income; and I must request you will
conform to it." And he did, in the subsequent articles of his said instructions, order the
whole management to be directed by Sir John D'Oyly, subject to his own directions as
aforesaid; and did even direct what company he should keep; and did throw reflections on
some persons, in places the nearest to him, as of bad character and base origin,—persons
whom he should decline to name as such, "unless he heard that they still availed themselves
of his goodness to retain the places which they improperly hold near his person." And he
did particularly order the said Nabob not to admit any English, but such as the said Sir John

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