h not to tremble both for ourselves and for our
constituents at the effect of riches. _Opum metuenda potestas._ We dread
the operation of money. Do we not know that there are many men who wait,
and who indeed hardly wait, the event of this prosecution, to let loose
all the corrupt wealth of India, acquired by the oppression of that
country, for the corruption of all the liberties of this, and to fill
the Parliament with men who are now the object of its indignation?
To-day the Commons of Great Britain prosecute the delinquents of India:
to-morrow the delinquents of India may be the Commons of Great Britain.
We know, I say, and feel the force of money; and we now call upon your
Lordships for justice in this cause of money. We call upon you for the
preservation of our manners, of our virtues. We call upon you for our
national character. We call upon you for our liberties; and hope that
the freedom of the Commons will be preserved by the justice of the
Lords.

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