interference, the objects of my arrangements will be effectually
attained; for I leave them in the charge of agents whose interests,
ambition, and every prospect of life are interwoven with their
success, and the hand of Heaven has visibly blest the soil with
every elementary source of progressive vegetation: but if a
different policy shall be adopted, if new agents are sent into the
country and armed with authority for the purpose of vengeance or
corruption, to no other will they be applied. If new demands are
raised on the Nabob Vizier, and accounts overcharged on one side
with a wide latitude taken on the other to swell his debt beyond
the means of payment,--if political dangers are portended, to
ground on them the pleas of burdening his country with unnecessary
defences and enormous subsidies,--or if, even abstaining from
direct encroachment on the Nabob's rights, your government shall
show but a degree of personal kindness to the partisans of the late
usurpation, or by any constructive indication of partiality and
disaffection furnish ground for the expectation of an approaching
change of system, I am sorry to say that all my labors will prove
abortive; for the slightest causes will be sufficient to deject
minds sore with the remembrance of past conflicts, and to elevate
those whose only dependence is placed in the renewal of the
confusion which I have labored with such zeal to eradicate, and
will of course debilitate the authority which can alone insure
future success. I almost fear that this denunciation of effects
from causes so incompetent, as they will appear to those who have
not had the experience which I have had of the quick sensibility
which influences the habits of men placed in a state of polity so
loose, and subject to the continual variations of capricious and
despotic authority, will be deemed overcharged, or perhaps void of
foundation; nor, if they should come to pass, will it be easy to
trace them with any positive evidence to their connection: yet it
is my duty to apprise you of what I apprehend, on grounds which I
deem of absolute certainty, may come to pass; and I rely on your
candor for a fair interpretation of my intention."

Here, my Lords, the prisoner at your bar has done exactly what his
bitterest accuser would do: he goes th