XXIX.  That soon after the departure of the said Mr. Francis he did again deprive the said Mahomed Reza Khan 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 Khan, 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 D’Oyly should approve, to his presence; and did repeat the said order in the following peremptory manner:  “You must forbid any person of that nation to be intruded into your presence without his introduction.”  And he did require his obedience in the following authoritative style:  “I shall think myself obliged to interfere in another manner, if you neglect it.”

XXX.  That he, the said Warren Hastings, did insult the captive condition of the said Nabob by informing him, in his imperious instructions aforesaid, that this total, blind, and implicit obedience, in every respect whatsoever, to Sir John D’Oyly and himself personally, and without any reference to the board, “was the very conditions of the compliance of the Governor-General and Council with his late requisition”; which requisition was, that he