I defy the ingenuity of man to show that Mr. Hastings is not the defamer of the service.  I defy the ingenuity of man to show that the honor of Great Britain has not been tarnished under his patronage.  He engaged to remove all these bloodsuckers by the treaty of Chunar; but he never executed that treaty.  He proposed to take away the temporary brigade; but he again established it.  He redressed no grievance; he formed no improvements in the government; he never attempted to provide a remedy without increasing the evil tenfold.  He was the primary and sole cause of all the grievances, civil and military, to which the unhappy natives of that country were exposed; and he was the accuser of all the immediate authors of those grievances, without having punished any one of them.  He is the accuser of them all.  But the only person whom he attempted to punish was that man who dared to assert the authority of the Court of Directors, and to claim an office assigned to him by them.

I will now read to your Lordships the protest of General Clavering against the military brigade.—­“Taking the army from the Nabob is an infringement of the rights of an independent prince, leaving only the name and title of it without the power.  It is taking his subjects from him, against every law of Nature and of nations.”

I will next read to your Lordships a minute of Mr. Francis’s.—­“By the foregoing letter from Mr. Middleton it appears that he has taken the government of the Nabob’s dominions directly upon himself.  I was not a party to the resolutions which preceded that measure, and will not be answerable for the consequences of it.”

The next paper I will read is one introduced by the Managers, to prove that a representation was made by the Nabob respecting the expenses of the gentlemen resident at his court, and written after the removal before mentioned.

    Extract of a Letter from the Vizier to Mr. Macpherson, received
    the 21st April, 1785.

“With respect to the expenses of the gentlemen who are here, I have before written in a covered manner; I now write plainly, that I have no ability to give money to the gentlemen, because I am indebted many lacs of rupees to the bankers for the payment of the Company’s debt.  At the time of Mr. Hastings’s departure, I represented to him that I had no resources for the expenses of the gentlemen.  Mr. Hastings, having ascertained my distressed situation, told me that after his arrival in Calcutta he would consult with the Council, and remove from hence the expenses of the gentlemen, and recall every person except the gentlemen in office here.  At this time that all the concerns are dependent upon you, and you have in every point given ease to my mind, according to Mr. Hastings’s agreement, I hope that the expenses of the gentlemen maybe removed from me, and that you may recall every person residing here beyond the gentlemen in office.  Although Major Palmer does not at