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YD AD PAPERS.

(No. VI.)
" 'Tis True, 'tis pity and pity 'tis, 'tis true."

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK

You are called, .on the 18th of March, to de..
cide upon not only a very important but a very novel ques-
tion—viz. to disapprove and censure the " Public Dispatches
under certain dates, of your own Directors, and to pass a vote
of thanks, and of exculpation, to the Marquis of Hastings, as
far as regards the late money transactions between the Nizam
and Messrs. .Palmer and Co." You, have a very serious and un-
pleasant duty to• discharge, and it behoves you, in this mo-
mentous business, to act with discrimination, not allowing
yourselves to be biassed by the cl&mours of interested
duals, or the influence of men in power.

Before I furnish.you with a brief and general notice of-the.
unhappy affair (for such it assuredly is), 1 cannot too Arrnestly
impress upon your recollection that the dispatches alluded to
have met with the approbation of the Board of ContrOul, a cir-
cumstance that must add greatly to their weight. I need not
remind you,. that the Board of Controul consists of a few men
of some little note and character, as for instance, Lord Liver.
pool, Mr. Cunning, Mr. Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,.
Lord Bathurst, and a few others ; that the Board is under the
able Presidency of as conscientious a man as any in the king-
dom, Mr. Charles W. Wynn,
You now see the way before you, and it rests with your-
selves whether you will have the imprudence and folly to attempt
to revoke the solemn acts of your own Directors, sanctioned as
they are by the approbation of the Ministers of the country.
I shall say nothing on tile .danger attendant on such a pre-
cedent, indeed, it is so obvious,. that it would be an insult to
any one's understanding to offer a word. •
The more difficult part of your duty, is, how you will have
the ingenuity to separate the Hydrabad transaction from the
public administration of the Ex-Governor-General, and what
part of the blame attaches to his imprudence (it was nothing
else) in tolerating for a moment the existence of a house of
Agency, whose tendency was that of involving your Ally and
friend the Nizam, in a boundless depth of debt and ruin. A good
deal has been said and written upon the subject, but I fancy the
majority of the Proprietors are about as wise as to the real
merits of the case, as before a word was written or spoken.
You have beer, favoured with two or three pamphlets, in
which as much pains as possible has been taken to confound
your judgments, and to make the " worst appear the better
reason." You have been delighted during six separate and
entire days, with an abundant overflow of speechifying —all
the eloquence and talent belonging to your honourable body
have been brought into play,—indeed, the vast quantities of
dormant and retiring genius and erudition called forth on this
occasion, has even surprised the most practised speakers of St.
Stephen's Chapel. It was a glorious sight to observe the vir-
tuous, indignation of Mr. J. as he dwelt with a fervour and
enthusiasm peculiarly his own, on the unmerited treatment of
the Hydrabad people,—the profound and complacent attention
given- to the speakers by the Directors themselves.anct rho
flight: Mr. D. perched on high, with
intense anxiety leaning on his stick, fearful of losing a
word, like a fond mother, watching her children play-
ing, nodding at one and smiling at the other, correct-
ing at it were by the mere expression of countenance the
actions and checking the ebullitions of the playful and talkative
broad below. There was a fat getleman who stood behind the
speaker'at a desk who appeared as if rivetted to the spot with
intence joy, indeed so gratified did he appear at that part where
Mr. J. alluded to himself in 1793. "In that Very Court"
while his eye in " fine phrenzye rolling" that I apprehended
he was fainting, but a comfortable wipe of the forehead restored -
him,
and happily the auditory did not lose the rz:nainder of
this beautiful imitation of Cicero's best style. But my friends
it all wilt not do, we cannot separate the business at Hydrabad
from the public acts of the late Governor General, and no man
more sincerely laments it than I do. I love the Marquis of
Hastings and know him to be as honourable and as high mind-
ed a Nobleman as any that grace the British Peerage—hut I
call to God to witness, were he my father, I would reprobate
the weakness and favouritism be sheaved in the late atihir—we
cannot slur it over, and his well earned fame, not merely dur-
ing his brilliant administration in India, but for half a century,
is defaced by this very transaction. We cannot divide the cause
and effect, and although we may turn the Court's Room from
the ignoble occupation of trafficking in Tea, and elevate
it into a Debating Society, and debate till Doomsday, there
is no getting over the plain matter of fact, any more than
there is of forcing men to believe that which they utterly anti
uniformly refuse to give credence to.
1 am so satisfied of the great utility of these debates at the
India House (although the last was somewhat protracted), that
I propose arty should be held three times in each month ; with
this proviso, that no debate should extend to more than four
days, and no haranguer should occupy the Court more than
four hours; it is astonishing to conceive what eloquence, what
wit, and what learning, would be displayed, and how much
hidden information and valuable knowleage would be brought
forward it is impossible to conjecture.
I have no doubt Ministers would patronize the Debating
Court, and likewise the aspirants after fame; for it is clear that
the Court would answer the purpose of a preparatory school
for intended members of the House of Commons.
The East India Directors, would, 1 have no doubt, gladly
aid in furtherance of my plan, for, as it is admitted, that they
know little or nothing about India afthirs, often neglect their
duty, and generally make shift to mismanage ; self-interest the
most powerful of all. stimulants to action, would compel them
to avail themselves constantly of the abilities and knowledge of
die various speechifyers—as I (lei not wish to return to India, I
only request to be appointed Serjeant at Arms, to take into cus-
tody refractory Or noisy members. I have four subjects of debate
ready cut and dried.
lst—Whether it would not have been more prudent to have
allowed the Burmese to have entered Bengal, and then have
defeated, them : than to have gone, at a great expence, into
their own sickly country and done it ?
2d— Whether Guzerat cotton, or Bengal cotton, is the cheapest
to cultivate, and which is most productive of profit to the
company ?
iid—Whether it would.not be advisable to recommend to his
Majesty's Ministers the appointment of an Ambassadur to the
Court of the Shah of Persia, to watch and controul Russian in-
fluence ?—N.B. Should this be carried in the affirmative, and
I not appointed Sergeant at Arms, I humbly recommend my-
self (lacking friends to do it for me), as I know the Persian
language, to fill the situation of Envoy Extraordinary.
4th—Ttiat it is desirable that the Court should be furnished
• every month with an attested medical certificate, touching the
health of that poor and much injured !Bodo° Prince, Bajee
Rao, late Pillina of the Deccan. In the present state of the '
conduct of Lord Amherst, Mr. John, &c. &c. it is not unlikely
to save the pension (100,0001. per annum,)given to that afflicted
Ex-Sovereign ; they might. administer a dose of opium, by
means of which lie might die against his own will, and the
express wishes of the Court.
Now, worthy Proprietors of Stock, whether " Gallant Of-
ficers or Learned Gentlemen," here is a field open for the full
display of your oratorical powers, but I have a higher object
than merely proposing an arena where gentlemen may gratify a
little praiseworthy vanity at the expence of the patience of
others ; 1 have something more noble and useful in view—it
is to elicit valuable and practical information regarding our
Oriental possessions, and the management of the Directors; in
short, that we may correct and remedy that which is defective
or bad, and applaud that little (and it is very little) which is
good.
It may be said here that 1 am unnecessarily harsh, and that my
strictures are directed against the Directors collectively and in-
dividuallyi—nothing of the kind. I have.a favourite object to
attain—the establisAment of an Oriental Radical Debating So.
ciety, with periodical sittings, 41 Pro firma, instead of the pre-

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