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as far as my conscience approves re-id toy score of
duty will permit. I can assure him it is foreign
from my dispoiition to he the accusers of tine,e who
are employed in the public service. 1 wculi mach
rather approve and applaud. But when flagrant
injustice is committed, and while there is a
legitimate appeal to this assembly, I shall
continue to draw attention to rich cases,
as I conceive deserve the consideration of Perliatnent.
I have been advised not to agitate this question. I
do not think the Right Hon. Centieman is-the person
in this House who should direct his censures against
agitation, remembering his own career for many
years.—(Hear, hear.) For myself; I will only say,
that when justice is denied by the executive authori-
ties, I do not consider it wrong to use those consti-
tu:ional means which have ben vo often found effec-
tual in obtaining the redress of grievances. I agree
with the Hon. Gentleman (Sir H. Widoughby)
that the case of the Raja was not strictly
one for an orelheary judicial tribunal, but
when he assumes the Reja to be guilty of an
infraction of the treaty, I beg to remind him that he
begs the question, and forgets that the Raja never
had the means of contradicting the evidence on which
his guilt has been made to rest. 1 bold in my hand
the answer given in the Court of Proprietors to a
question put by an eminent leg-II gentleman to the
Court of Directors, who asked before he voted whether
the Raja had had a hearing, and was openly told by
a director that the Raja hail never been heard
in his defence.--(Hear.) That answer was not con-
tradicted. To the hour of his death the
Raja was denied every deposidon recorded against
him, and his repeated pray r to be heard was syste-
matically refused. In conclusion, I beg to thank the
President of the India Board for the glimpse. he has
afforded us of a prospect, in the future, of a more
cheering and satisfactory character, and 1 fervently
wish him success in his efforts to terminate this
business in a manner consolatory to the feelings of
the late Raja's family, and satisfactotv to the minds
of those who have so long been engaged in
the present controversy. With the permission of the
House I shall withdraw my motion, and say nothing
further in justification of the course I have pursued
than this, that I hold it to be the bounden duty of
Parliament, from which the East India Company
derives its authority, to see that the power they have
delegated is neither transcended, perverted, nor abused;
and that the millions of India, who are virtually un
represented here, have the benefit of the interposition
of this House, whenever their just rights are invaded,
or their liberties and property endangered by their
rulers.—(Hear.)
The motion was withdrawn.
ROYAL ASSENT.
Mr. G. Thompson was interrupted in the course
of his speech by a message from the Lords requiring
the attendance of the House of Cominons to hear the
Royal assent given by Commission to several public
and private Bills (for which see Lords' report).
The House then adjourned at Half-past Six.

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