the issue of Munny Begum, an harlot, brought in to pollute the harem of the seraglio, of
whom you will hear much hereafter, was chosen. He soon succeeded to the grave. Another
son of the same prostitute succeeded to the same unhappy throne, and followed to the same
untimely grave. Every succession was sold; and between venal successions and venal
revolutions, in a very few years seven princes and six sales were seen successively in
Bengal. The last was a minor, the issue of a legitimate wife, admitted to succeed because a
minor, and because there was none illegitimate left. He was instantly stripped of the
allowance of his progenitors, and reduced to a pension of 160,000 a year. He still exists,
and continued to the end of Mr. Hastings's government to furnish constant sources of
bribery and plunder to him and his creatures.
The offspring of Munny Begum clinging, as his father did, to Nundcomar, they tore
Nundcomar from his side, as they had done from the side of his father, and carried him
down as a sort of prisoner to Calcutta; where, having had the weakness to become the first
informer, he was made the first example. This person, pushed to the wall, and knowing that
the man he had to deal with was desperate and cruel in his resentments, resolves on the first
blow, and enters before the Council a regular information in writing of bribery against Mr.
Hastings. In his preface to that charge he excuses himself for what is considered to be an act
equally insane and wicked, and as the one inexpiable crime of an Indian, the discovery of
the money he gives,—that Mr. Hastings had declaredly determined on his ruin, and to
accomplish it had newly associated himself with one Mohun Persaud, a name I wish your
Lordships to remember, a bitter enemy of his, an infamous person, whom Mr. Hastings
knew to be such, and as such had turned him out of his house,—that Mr. Hastings had lately
recalled, and held frequent communications with this Mohun Persaud, the subject of which
he had no doubt was his ruin. In the year 1775 he was hanged by those incorrupt English
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