family of
Sujah Dowlah, in their endeavors to procure subsistence, should be
obliged to expose themselves to the meanest of the people. After
bewailing their misfortunes and shedding many tears, the Begum took
her leave and returned home.'"

As a proof of the extremity of the distress which reigned in the Khord
Mohul, your Lordships have been told that these women must have perished
through famine, if their gaolers, Captain Jaques and Major Gilpin, had
not raised money upon their own credit, and supplied them with an
occasional relief. And therefore, when they talk of his peculation, of
his taking but a bribe here and a bribe there, see the consequences of
his system of peculation, see the consequences of a usurpation which
extinguishes the natural authority of the country, see the consequences
of a clandestine correspondence that does not let the injuries of the
country come regularly before the authorities in Oude to relieve it,
consider the whole mass of crimes, and then consider the sufferings that
have arisen in consequence of it.

My Lords, it was not corporal pain alone that these miserable women
suffered. The unsatisfied cravings of hunger and the blows of the
sepoys' bludgeons could touch only the physical part of their nature.
But, my Lords, men are made of two parts,--the physical part, and the
moral. The former he has in common with the brute creation. Like theirs,
our corporeal pains are very limited and temporary. But the sufferings
which touch our moral nature have a wider range, and are infinitely more
acute, driving the sufferer sometimes to the extremities of despair and
distraction. Man, in his moral nature, becomes, in his progress through
life, a creature of prejudice, a creature of opinions, a creature of
habits, and of sentiments growing out of them. These form our second
nature, as inhabitants of the country and members of the society in
which Providence has placed us. This sensibility of our moral nature is
far more acute in that sex which, I may say without any compliment,
forms the better and more virtuous part of mankind, and which is at the
same time the least protected from the insults and outrages to which
this sensibility exposes them. This is a new source of feelings, that
often make corporal distress doubly felt; and it has a whole class of
distresses of its own. These are the things that have gone to the heart
of the Commons.

We have stated, first, the sufferin