These steps must be traced by your Lordships; for I should never have given you this trouble, if it was not necessary to possess you clearly of the several progressive steps by which the Company's government came to be established and to supersede the native.

The next step was the appointment of supervisors in every province, to oversee the native collector.

The third was to establish a general Council of Revenue at Moorshedabad, to superintend the great steward, Mahomed Reza Khan.

In 1772 that Council by Mr.Hastings was overturned, and the whole management of the revenue brought to Calcutta.
Mahomed Reza Khan, by orders of the Company, was turned out of all his offices, and turned out for reasons and principles which your Lordships will hereafter see; and at last the dewanny was entirely taken out of the native hands, and settled in the Supreme Council and Presidency itself in Calcutta; and so it remained until the year 1781, when Mr.
Hastings made another revolution, took it out of the hands of the Supreme Council, in which the orders of the Company, an act of Parliament, and their own act had vested it, and put it into a subordinate council: that is, it was entirely vested in himself.
* * * * * Now your Lordships see the whole of the revolutions.

I have stated them, I trust, with perspicuity,--stated the grounds and principles upon which they were made,--stated the abuses that grew upon them,--and that every revolution produced its abuse.