They saw a
tyrant violent in his demands and weak in his power. They saw their
prince imprisoned and insulted, after he had made every offer of
submission, and had laid his turban three times in the lap of his
oppressor. They saw him, instead of availing himself of the means he
possessed of cutting off his adversary, (for the life of Mr. Hastings
was entirely in his power,) betaking himself to flight. They then
thronged round him, took up arms in his defence, and shed the blood of
some of his insulters. Is this resistance, so excited, so provoked, a
plea for irreconcilable vengeance?
I must beg pardon for having omitted to lay before your Lordships in its
proper place a most extraordinary paper, which will show you in what
manner judicial inquiries are conducted, upon what grounds charges are
made, by what sort of evidence they are supported, and, in short, to
what perils the lives and fortunes of men are subjected in that country.
This paper is in the printed Minutes, page 1608. It was given in
agreeably to the retrograde order which they have established in their
judicial proceedings. It was produced to prove the truth of a charge of
rebellion which was made some months before the paper in evidence was
known to the accuser.
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