The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
entirely to the management of Sudder ul Huk Khân. This is
absolutely necessary to restore the country to a state of
tranquillity; and if your Excellency has any plan to propose for
the management of the affairs in future, be pleased to communicate
it to me, and every attention shall be paid to give your Excellency
satisfaction."
My Lords, I think I have read enough to you for our present
purpose,--referring your Lordships for fuller information to your
Minutes, page 1086, which I beg you to read with the greatest attention.
I must again beg your Lordships to remark, that, though Mr. Hastings has
the impudence still to pretend that he wishes for the restoration of
order and justice in the country, yet, instead of writing to Munny Begum
upon the business, whom he knew to be the very object complained of, and
whose eunuchs are expressly mentioned in the complaint, he writes to the
Nabob, whom he knew to be a pageant in his own court and government, and
whose name was not even mentioned in this last complaint. Not one word
is said, even in this letter to the Nabob, of Munny Begum or of her
eunuchs. My Lords, when you consider his tacit support of the authors of
the grievance, and his ostensible application for redress to the man
who he knew never authorized and could not redress the grievance, you
must conclude that he meant to keep the country in the same state for
his own corrupt purposes. In this state the country in fact continued;
Munny Begum and her eunuchs continued to administer and squander the
Company's money, as well as the Nabob's; robberies and murders continued
to prevail throughout the country. No appearance was left of order, law,
or justice, from one end of Bengal to the other.
The account of this state of things was received by the Court of
Directors with horror and indignation. On the 27th of May, 1779, they
write, as you will find in page 1063 of your printed Minutes, a letter
to their government at Calcutta, condemning their proceedings and the
removal of Mahomed Reza Khân, and they order that Munny Begum shall be
displaced, and Mahomed Reza Khân restored again to the seat of justice.
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