Your Committee will therefore leave them, as Mr.
Hastings has done, to the opinion of the House.
As soon as the Nabob's requisition was communicated to the board, it was
moved and resolved that Mahomed Reza Khan should be divested of his
office; and the House have seen in what manner it was disposed of. The
Nabob had stated various complaints against him:--that he had dismissed
the old established servants of the Nizamut, and filled their places
with his own dependants;--that he had _regularly received_ the stipend
of the Nizamut from the Company, yet had kept the Nabob involved in debt
and distress, and exposed to the clamors of his creditors, and sometimes
even in want of a dinner. All these complaints were recorded at large in
the proceedings of the Council; but it does not appear that they were
ever communicated to Mahomed Reza Khan, or that he was ever called upon,
in any shape, to answer them. This circumstance inclines your Committee
to believe that all of these charges were groundless,--especially as it
appears on the face of the proceedings, that the chief of them were not
well founded.
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