Like all the rest of the great personages whom we have degraded and brutalized by insult and oppression, he betook himself to the usual destructive resources of unprincipled misery,--sensuality, opium, and wine.

His gigantic frame of constitution soon gave way under the oppression of this relief, and he died, leaving children and grandchildren by wives and concubines.

On the old Nabob's death, Mahomed Reza Khan was acknowledged Deputy Nabob, the money paid, and this revolution completed.
Here, my Lords, opened a new source of plunder, peculation, and bribery, which was not neglected.

Revolutions were no longer necessary; succession supplied their places: and well the object agreed with the policy.

Rules of succession could not be very well ascertained to an office like that of the Nabob, which was hereditary only by the appointment of the Mogul.