the matter is within it in
the ordinary course of proceedings: it is the extraordinary course, the
extrajudicial conduct, which divests it of that just weight it otherwise
would have.

This chief-justice goes to Lucknow, where he holds his court, such as it
was. He is ready to authenticate any process by the signature of the
English chief-justice, in a court which he holds by night, in a court
which he holds in darkness and secrecy. He holds his court in Fyzabad;
he holds it, unknown to the Nabob of Oude, in his own capital, and
without giving him the least knowledge of or any notice of what he was
proceeding to do. He holds it at the lodgings of Colonel Morgan, a
pensioner of the Nabob; and the person assisting him is Mr. Middleton,
who is likewise, as we have proved to you, one of the Nabob's
pensioners, a monopolizer of trade in the country, and a person who
received much the major part of his emoluments from the Nabob's hands.

In that clandestine manner, in the Nabob's own house, in his own capital
city, in the lodging of his dependant and pensioner, Colonel Morgan,
with no other witness that we know of than Mr. Middleton, was this
iniquitous, dark procedure held, to criminate the mother of the Nabob.
We here see a scene of dark, mysterious contrivance: let us now see what
is brought out in the face of open day. The attestations themselves,
which you have seen on the record before you. They were brought
out--where? there? No: they were brought out in another place; they were
brought out at Calcutta,--but were never communicated to the Nabob. He
never knew anything of the matter. Let us now see what those
attestations were. Your Lordships will bear in mind that I do not advert
to this thing, which they bring as evidence, in the way of imputation of
its being weak, improper, and insufficient evidence, but as an
incontrovertible proof of crimes, and of a systematic design to ruin
the accused party, by force there and by chicane here: these are the
principles upon which I am going to talk to you upon this abominable
subject,--of which, I am sorry to say, I have no words sufficient to
express my horror. No words can express it; nor can anything but the
severity of your Lordships' judgments find an adequate expression of it.
It is not to be expressed in words, but in punishment.

Having stated before whom the evidence collected in this body of
affidavits was taken, I shall now state who the persons were that gave
it.