then to make a merit of it to you. "Oh!" says he,
"I have by a mere breach of your faith, by a single dash of my pen,
saved you all this money which you were bound to pay. I have exonerated
you from the payment of it. I have gained you 250,000_l._ a year
forever. Will you not reward a person who did you such a great and
important service, by conniving a little at his delinquencies?"

But the House of Commons will not allow that this was a great and
important service; on the contrary, they have declared the act itself to
be censurable. There is our resolution,--Resolution the 7th:--

"That the conduct of the Company and their servants in India to the
King," (meaning the Mogul king) "and Nudjif Khan, with respect to the
tribute payable to the one, and the stipend to the other, and with
respect to the transfer of the provinces of Corah, and Allahabad to the
Vizier, was contrary to policy and good faith; and that such wise and
practicable measures should be adopted in future as may tend to redeem
the national honor, and recover the confidence and attachment of the
princes of India."

This act of injustice, against which we have fulminated the thunder of
our resolutions as a heavy crime, as a crime that dishonored the nation,
and which measures ought to be taken to redress, this man has the
insolence to bring before your Lordships as a set-off against the crimes
we charge him with. This outrageous defiance of the House of Commons,
this outrageous defiance of all the laws of his country, I hope your
Lordships will not countenance. You will not let it pass for nothing: on
the contrary, you will consider it as aggravating heavily his crimes.
And, above all, you will not suffer him to set off this, which we have
declared to be injurious to our national honor and credit, and which he
himself does not deny to be a breach of the public faith, against other
breaches of the public faith with which we charge him,--or to justify
one class of public crimes by proving that he has committed others.

Your Lordships see that he justifies this crime upon the plea of its
being profitable to the Company; but he shall not march off even on this
ground with flying colors. My Lords, pray observe in what manner he
calculates these profits. Your Lordships will find that he makes up the
account of them much in the same manner as he made up the account of
Nobkissin's money. There is, indeed, no account which he has ever
brought forth that does not