never came again among them, he might have them. I understand that Mahdajee Sindia has
made his panegyric, too. Mahdajee Sindia has not made his panegyric for nothing; for, if
your Lordships will suffer him to enter into such a justification, we shall prove that he has
sacrificed the dignity of this country and the interests of all its allies to that prince. We
appear here neither with panegyric nor with satire; it is for substantial crimes we bring him
before you, and amongst others for cruelly using persons of the highest rank and
consideration in India; and when we prove he has cruelly injured them, you will think the
panegyrics either gross forgeries or most miserable aggravations of his offences, since they
show the abject and dreadful state into which he has driven those people. For let it be
proved that I have cruelly robbed and maltreated any persons, if I produce a certificate from
them of my good behavior, would it not be a corroborative proof of the terror into which
those persons are thrown by my misconduct?
My Lords, these are, I believe, the general grounds of our charge. I have now closed
completely, and I hope to your Lordships' satisfaction, the whole body of history of which I
wished to put your Lordships in possession. I do not mean that many of your Lordships
may not have known it more perfectly by your own previous inquiries; but, bringing to your
remembrance the state of the circumstances of the persons with whom he acted, the persons
and power he has abused, I have gone to the principles he maintains, the precedents he
quotes, the laws and authorities which he refuses to abide by, and those on which he relies;
and at last I have refuted all those pleas in bar on which he depends, and for the effect of
which he presumes on the indulgence and patience of this country, or on the corruption of
some persons in it. And here I close what I had to say upon this subject,—wishing and
hoping, that, when I open before your Lordships the case more particularly, so as to state