about two years before removed him, and for the effecting of which they had committed so many iniquities.  Even this revolution was not made without being paid for.  According to the usual order of procession, in which the youngest walk first, first comes the Company; and the Company had secured to it in perpetuity those provinces which Cossim Ali Khan had ceded, as it was thought, rather in the way of mortgage than anything else.  Then, under the name of compensation for sufferings to the people concerned in the trade, and in the name of donation to an army and a navy which had little to do in this affair, they tax him—­what sum do you think?  They tax that empty and undone treasury of that miserable and undone country 500,000_l._ for a private emolument to themselves,—­for the compensation for this iniquitous trade,—­for the compensation for abuses of which he was neither the author nor the abettor, they tax this miserable prince 500,000_l._ That sum was given to individuals.  Now comes the Company at home, which, on hearing this news, was all inflamed.  The Directors were on fire.  They were shocked at it, and particularly at this donation to the army and navy.  They resolved they would give it no countenance and support.  In the mean time the gentlemen did not trouble their heads upon that subject, but meant to exact and get their 500,000_l._ as they could.

Here was a third revolution, bought at this amazing sum, and this poor, miserable prince first dragged from Moorshedabad to Calcutta, then dragged back from Calcutta to Moorshedabad, the sport of fortune and the plaything of avarice.  This poor man is again set up, but is left with no authority:  his troops limited,—­his person, everything about him, in a manner subjugated,—­a British Resident the master of his court:  he is set up as a pageant on this throne, with no other authority but what would be sufficient to give a countenance to presents, gifts, and donations.  That authority was always left, when all the rest was taken away.  One would have thought that this revolution might have satisfied these gentlemen, and that the money gained by it would have been sufficient.  No.  The partisans of Cossim Ali wanted another revolution.  The partisans of the other side wished to have something more done in the present.  They now began to think that to depose Cossim instantly, and to sell him to another, was too much at one time,—­especially as Cossim Ali was a man of vigor and resolution, carrying on a fierce war against them.  But what do you think they did?  They began to see, from the example of Cossim Ali, that the lieutenancy, the ministry of the king, was a good thing to be sold, and the sale of that might turn out as good a thing as the sale of the prince.