may venture to put one into their dictionary. Mr. Hastings has
said he has had the pleasure to find from the people of India that
gratitude which he has not met with from his own countrymen, the House
of Commons. Certainly, if he has done us services, we have been
ungrateful indeed; if he has committed enormous crimes, we are just. Of
the miserable, dependent situation to which these people are reduced,
that they are not ashamed to come forward and deny everything they have
given under their own hand,--all these things show the portentous nature
of this government, they show the portentous nature of that phalanx with
which the House of Commons is at present at war, the power of that
captain-general of every species of Indian iniquity, which, under him,
is embodied, arrayed, and paid, from Leadenhall Street to the
furthermost part of India.

We have but one observation more to offer upon this collection of
_razinamas_, upon these miserable testimonials given by these wretched
people in contradiction to all their own previous
representations,--directly in contradiction to those of Mr. Hastings
himself,--directly in contradiction to those of Lord
Cornwallis,--directly in contradiction to truth itself. It is this. Here
is Mr. Hastings with his agents canvassing the country, with all that
minuteness with which a county is canvassed at an election; and yet in
this whole book of razinamas not one fact adduced by us is attempted to
be disproved, not one fact upon which Mr. Hastings's defence can be
founded is attempted to be proved. There is nothing but bare vile
panegyrics, directly belied by the state of facts, directly belied by
the persons themselves, directly belied by Mr. Hastings at your bar, and
by all the whole course of the correspondence of the country.

We here leave to your Lordships' judgment the consideration of the
elevated rank of the persons aggrieved and degraded to the lowest state
of dependence and actual distress,--the consideration of the condition
of the country gentlemen, who were obliged to hide their heads, wherever
they could, from the plunderers and robbers established under his
authority in every part of the country, and that of the miserable common
people, who have been obliged to sell their children through want of
food to feed them,--the consideration, I say, of the manner in which
this country, in the highest, in the middle, and in the lowest classes
of its inhabitants, nay, in physical works