power, indeed,—first to a seat in Council at Fort St. George, and from thence to succeed to
the Presidency of Fort William. On him the Company placed their chief reliance. Happy
had it been for them, happy for India and for England, if his conduct had been such as to
spare your Lordships and the Commons the exhibition of this day!
When this government, with Mr. Hastings at the head of it, was settled, Moorshedabad did
still continue the seat of the native government, and of all the collections. Here the
Company was not satisfied with placing a Resident at the durbar, which was the first step to
our assuming the government in that country. These steps must be traced by your
Lordships; for I should never have given you this trouble, if it was not necessary to possess
you clearly of the several progressive steps by which the Company's government came to
be established and to supersede the native. The next step was the appointment of
supervisors in every province, to oversee the native collector. The third was to establish a
general Council of Revenue at Moorshedabad, to superintend the great steward, Mahomed
Reza Khân. In 1772 that Council by Mr. Hastings was overturned, and the whole
management of the revenue brought to Calcutta. Mahomed Reza Khân, by orders of the
Company, was turned out of all his offices, and turned out for reasons and principles which
your Lordships will hereafter see; and at last the dewanny was entirely taken out of the
native hands, and settled in the Supreme Council and Presidency itself in Calcutta; and so it
remained until the year 1781, when Mr. Hastings made another revolution, took it out of the
hands of the Supreme Council, in which the orders of the Company, an act of Parliament,
and their own act had vested it, and put it into a subordinate council: that is, it was entirely
vested in himself.
Now your Lordships see the whole of the revolutions. I have stated them, I trust, with
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