opinion on the corrupt cause of his removal, and a second time to pledge
to him the public faith for his continuance, were received, Mr.
Hastings, who had been just before a pattern of obedience, when the
despoiling, oppressing, imprisoning, and persecuting this man was the
object, yet, when the order was of a beneficial nature, and pleasant to
a well-formed mind, he at once loses all his old principles, he grows
stubborn and refractory, and refuses obedience. And in this sullen,
uncomplying mood he continues, until, to gratify Mr. Francis, in an
agreement on some of their differences, he consented to his proposition
of obedience to the appointment of the Court of Directors. He grants to
his arrangement of convenience what he had refused to his duty, and
replaces that magistrate. But mark the double character of the man,
never true to anything but fraud and duplicity. At the same time that he
publicly replaces this magistrate, pretending compliance with his
colleague and obedience to his masters, he did, in defiance of his own
and the public faith, privately send an assurance to the Nabob, that is,
to Munny Begum,--informs her that he was compelled by necessity to the
present arrangement in favor of Mahomed Reza Khân, but that on the first
opportunity he would certainly displace him again. And he kept faith
with his corruption; and to show how vainly any one sought protection in
the lawful authority of this kingdom, he displaced Mahomed Reza Khân
from the lieutenancy and controllership, leaving him only the judicial
department miserably curtailed.

But does he adhere to his old pretence of freedom to the Nabob? No such
thing. He appoints an absolute master to him under the name of Resident,
a creature of his personal favor, Sir John D'Oyly, from whom there is
not one syllable of correspondence and not one item of account. How
grievous this yoke was to that miserable captive appears by a paper of
Mr. Hastings, in which he acknowledges that the Nabob had offered, out