The last was a minor, the issue of a legitimate wife, admitted to succeed because a minor, and because there was none illegitimate left.

He was instantly stripped of the allowance of his progenitors, and reduced to a pension of 160,000 a year.

He still exists, and continued to the end of Mr.Hastings's government to furnish constant sources of bribery and plunder to him and his creatures.
The offspring of Munny Begum clinging, as his father did, to Nundcomar, they tore Nundcomar from his side, as they had done from the side of his father, and carried him down as a sort of prisoner to Calcutta; where, having had the weakness to become the first informer, he was made the first example.

This person, pushed to the wall, and knowing that the man he had to deal with was desperate and cruel in his resentments, resolves on the first blow, and enters before the Council a regular information in writing of bribery against Mr.Hastings.In his preface to that charge he excuses himself for what is considered to be an act equally insane and wicked, and as the one inexpiable crime of an Indian, the discovery of the money he gives,--that Mr.Hastings had declaredly determined on his ruin, and to accomplish it had newly associated himself with one Mohun Persaud, a name I wish your Lordships to remember, a bitter enemy of his, an infamous person, whom Mr.Hastings knew to be such, and as such had turned him out of his house,--that Mr.
Hastings had lately recalled, and held frequent communications with this Mohun Persaud, the subject of which he had no doubt was his ruin.

In the year 1775 he was hanged by those incorrupt English judges who were sent to India by Parliament to protect the natives from oppression.
Your Lordships will observe that this new sale of the office of ministers succeeded to the sale of that of nabobs.