to his request.  Ishmael Beg accordingly collected twelve hundred peons, which were not allowed to the aumil of that place in the year 1185.  The reason why I gave permission for the additional expense of twelve hundred peons was, that he might be enabled to manage the country with ease, and pay the money to government regularly.  I besides sent Mr. Osborne there to command in the mahals belonging to Allahabad, which were in the possession of Rajah Ajeet Sing; and he accordingly took charge.  Afterwards, in obedience to the orders of the Governor-General, Mr. Hastings, Jelladut Jung, he was recalled, and the mahals placed, as before, under Rajah Ajeet Sing.  I never sent Mr. Osborne to settle the concerns of Allahabad, for there was no occasion for him; but Mr. Osborne, of himself, committed depredations and rapines within Ishmael Beg’s jurisdiction.  Last year, the battalion, which, by permission of General Sir Eyre Coote, was sent, received orders to secure and defend Ishmael Beg against the encroachments of Mr. Osborne; for the complaints of Ishmael Beg against the violences of Mr. Osborne had reached the General and Mr. Purling; and the Governor and gentlemen of Council, at my request, recalled Mr. Osborne.  This year, as before, the collections of Arreel and Parra remain under Ishmael Beg.  In those places, some of the talookdars and zemindars, who had been oppressed and ill-treated by Mr. Osborne, had conceived ideas of rebellion.”

Here, my Lords, you have an account of the condition of Darunghur, Futtyghur, Furruckabad, and of the whole line of our military stations in the Nabob’s dominions.  You see the whole was one universal scene of plunder and rapine.  You see all this was known to Mr. Hastings, who never inflicted any punishments for all this horrible outrage.  You see the utmost he has done is merely to recall one man, Major Osborne, who was by no means the only person deeply involved in these charges.  He nominated all these people; he has never called any of them to an account.  Shall I not, then, call him their captain-general?  Shall not your Lordships call him so?  And shall any man in the kingdom call him by any other name?  We see all the executive, all the civil and criminal justice of the country seized on by him.  We see the trade and all the duties seized upon by his creatures.  We see them destroying established markets, and creating others at their pleasure.  We see them, in the country of an ally and in a time of peace, producing all the consequences of rapine and of war.  We see the country ruined and depopulated by men who attempt to exculpate themselves by charging their unhappy victims with rebellion.