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.ud..feeling; of the House ;
and I.l* • I For this that the 'louse
of C .)thdiette• its superintendence
strii and bite a fire license to
isery..aist ure fiovrrnor of India. for the
sttlii,4'..eneies: with which he bed, or should be ae-
cas•:,l, auxin his administration in that branch of
the etwire.' ha reason of the Noble Lord was
still wore monstrous : It demanded from the
House this stirreader of its paramount duties, lest
Franco should learn that this country had coin.-
plaineil of the nal-achnittibtryttiotk of its India!' Go-
vernment. Let him l3e osetired, that the trite and
only niode to prevcitt much a source of satisfac-
tion to our muink.., wits, first, by the just. and

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honourable th,cuarge 01 their duties, as ser-
vants of the public ; and nest, by the [louse ex-
ercising its salutary powers of inquiry into the con-
duct of such as nere charged with the violittioa of
the duties which they were selected to perform. It
was not his inteution to enter fully into the dis-
cussion of the itlltiftt. utter the clear and lumin-
ous summing which his honourable and Learned
Frieud (Sir S. nomilly) had given it in his able
speech ; a speech hy means shaken or neakened
by. what he was forced to cull the grill-4;4k-
wup observations of the Noble Lord. Ile Wits
willing to give him the fullest credit for his Benec
end iatuitive penetration, in replying loosely
to the observations of his Learned Friend ;
but still he must insist, that his thoughts, illus-
trating such a species of sagacity, at the seine
time betrayed a total and absolute ignorance of
tutpapers and evidence before the Horse.—
respect to the measure which was the subject
!matter of the disciusnon, it did not alone operate
most the Government of the Marquis AVellesley:
No. He e..'r had, and ever would contend, that
the persons alio dR Lome either planned or atlviaed
the proceedings in the Carnatie, were equally de-
linquents, perhaps more liable to the censure of that
noose. Tb. Noble Lord, ;a ilef,iiding that trans-
bction, assumed the treason of the family of the
Nabob of the Carnatie. Upon what evidence was
this assumption founded? Forsooth. upon this
creditable insputetion, that his graudfather had
been hostile to the British power, and that,
'ierefore, through two descents, it was
fur the successor to enjoy any other inheritance
the tremulous of his direct preilecessors. .• But,
the Noble Lord, dd there was no deviation ;
the lawful her was deposed from the \ lusnud.
neat in consanguinity to him was appointed." It
no such thing. The nest in line was passed
, and the appoiniaiesit was made upon the ion of
person who had heel' known and convicted of
entity to the British power in that country. To
spurt this strange and unprincipled tran.ection,
!finite necessity has been pleaded. That justeica-
lion he was willing to admit, where the tire -
iessmes were fully made out to warrant it. But it
'stsst be estate necessity, belf-evident, dine VOA ingauy
alliance with Ally other plea, and capable of Irving
defeaded upon its own intrinsic inents. Produce
"pith a juststioation, in the present instance, and the
ifistent permed was not to he condemned ; but do
pilfer 1. Alt; from the role of Justice to cover
ptible Unquote. ( Loud tries elf Elem. ! hear !
t--The night honourable Gentleman then took
accurate retrospect of the connection of this
autry with the Nabobs of the Cornett! ; and in
answer to -what was termed these &Taxiing
states, asserted, that. the very first were Greet Sri-
. possessed iu Ilindosten, was under the same
:num as that by which that family eujiyrd
their independence. With respect to the death of
young Nabob, he acquitted the Noble Mar-
luis of any other fault than a carelessness to his
.tuation, in keying him subject to the will aad sat-
price of the person who was, to his exclusion, seats
do the inusnud. As to his general policy, said
Right Honourable Alenalwr, I acquit the Noble
tautens of any mean, corrnpt, or sordid in.itive ;
,ut with respect to the general result of h 4 Go-
vernment it might be summed up in a few words.
When be arrive/ in India he found a steady mid
peremptory system of eismonry, established nv Sir
Shore, its pursuance of the wise recummeu
i Lord Cornwallis ; when he left India lie be-
queathed, as a legacy to its Government. the exam-
of the most grow lug and gigantic prodigality that
-MOT created debt in a state, or inflictive' `orders on
people. When be assumed the supreme power in
2alciitta, he met an earnest disposition. newly re-
stored, to respect the orders of his implorers. and
obey the laws of the laud, which prescribed rules
. conduct to their servants ; when he r..-mined
that situation. he released, by the precedent of his
own errodnet, his successors from all respect to the
Directors, and encouraged in them an entire con-
tempt of every law enacted by Parliament.—
When he errered in India, he found a returning
disposition in the Native Powers to comiflile in lin-
tish honour ; he left in it, it is to be feared, an irre-
concilable distrust of British faith and justice. In
one word. wheal he landed in India, he found the
British Government without a foe, and %%lieu hr de-
.
from it, he left it without a friend ! flfrar!
SZId 1 Hear !) It is. Sir. not necessary for nie
to relate the causes which have induce/I me net to
hang this subject myself before the nonse. My
motes for not doing vo call be traced to the hopes.
Iliad entertnieed, that in, some of the pre.s ding
altainistrations it would hare been tioniglit forward
with effect. However, it is now submitted to the
consideration of the Muse, at a Moment s hen
public rumour has widely cireulated, that the
Noble Marquis is s'oortly to be celled to take a
part in the Councils of the Empire. ilia great
and distinguished qualifieations to fultit the du-
ties of any situation to which his Soverel,m shall
think proper to call him, I am most rally to
admit ; at the sane time. that 1 ever stud' protest
against the ruinous consequences of that ulna-hie,-
mnis ambition which has characterised his Indian
Adiniaistratien. The eery probability of his ap-
pointment, instead of inducing me to remain silent
on this question, has the wore powerfully com-
manded me to deliver this opinion. (Hear! hear!/
Mr. Fut.t.ta spoke riciminst the risolotiou, and ems sur-
prised to observe the Right Hon Gest take up scalar,
peal* rot fii:orne. (Merinos free b•IA odes. )
Dr. LAWRIINCt :11r.Wti Dna rit, is mest msrle 'pact*.
is, supported the iterealutioe ; sad after • reply from Sit
TPI4IO/1•• Tt soros, :the House divided es the Resoistivs
primes d by it.. Hee Baresiet.
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