"The Persian Translator has received from Mr. Scott, since the late
Governor-General's departure, a trunk containing English draughts
and translations and the Persian originals of letters and papers,
with three books in the Persian language containing copies of
letters written between August, 1782, and January, 1785; and if the
Board should please to order the secretaries of the general
department to furnish him with copies of all translations and
draughts recorded in their Consultations between the 1st of January,
1782, and the 31st of January, 1785, he thinks that he should be
able, with what he has found in Captain Scott's trunk, to make up
the correspondence for that period.
(Signed) "EDWARD COLEBROOKE,
"_Persian Translator._"
Hear, then, my Lords, what becomes of the records of the Company, which
were to be the vouchers for every public act,--which were to show
whether, in the Company's transactions, agreements, and treaties with
the native powers, the public faith was kept or not. You see them all
crammed into Mr. Scott's trunk: a trunk into which they put what they
please, take out what they please, suppress what they please, or thrust
in whatever will answer their purpose.
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