made by the same persons to deprive him of his inheritance.  Listen to this razinama, and then judge of all the other testimonials which have been produced on the part of the prisoner at your bar.  His counsel rest upon them, they glory in them, and we shall not abate them one of these precious testimonials.  They put the voice of grateful India against the voice of ungrateful England.  Now hear what grateful India says, after our having told you for what it was so grateful.

“I, Radanaut, Zemindar of Purgunnah Havelly Punjera, commonly called Dinagepore:—­As it has been learnt by me, the mutsuddies and respectable officers of my zemindary, that the ministers of England are displeased with the late Governor, Warren Hastings, Esquire, upon the suspicion that he oppressed us, took money from us by deceit and force, and ruined the country, therefore we, upon the strength of our religion, which we think it incumbent on and necessary for us to abide by, following the rules laid down in giving evidence, declare the particulars of the acts and deeds of Warren Hastings, Esquire, full of circumspection and caution, civility and justice, superior to the conduct of the most learned, and by representing what is fact wipe away the doubts that have possessed the minds of the ministers of England; that Mr. Hastings is possessed of fidelity and confidence, and yielding protection to us; that he is clear from the contamination of mistrust and wrong, and his mind is free of covetousness and avarice.  During the time of his administration, no one saw other conduct than that of protection to the husbandmen, and justice; no inhabitant ever experienced affliction, no one ever felt oppression from him.  Our reputations have always been guarded from attacks by his prudence, and our families have always been protected by his justice.”

Good God! my Lords, “our families protected by his justice”!  What! after Gunga Govind Sing, in concert with Mr. Hastings, had first robbed him of 40,000_l._, and then had attempted to snatch, as it were, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings the inheritance of their fathers, and to deprive this infant of a great part of his family estate?  Here is a child, eleven years old, who never could have seen Mr. Hastings, who could know nothing of him but from the heavy hand of oppression, affliction, wrong, and robbery, brought to bear testimony to the virtues of Mr. Hastings before a British Parliament!  Such is the confidence they repose in their hope of having bribed the English nation by the millions and millions of money, the countless lacs of rupees, poured into it from India, that they had dared to bring this poor robbed infant to bear testimony to the character of Mr. Hastings!  These are the things which are to be opposed to the mass of evidence which the House of Commons bring against this man,—­evidence which they bring from his own acts, his own writing, and his own records,—­a cloud of testimony furnished by himself in support of charges brought forward and urged by us agreeably to the magnitude of his crimes, with the horror which is inspired by them, and with the contempt due to this paltry attempt towards his defence, which they had dared to produce from the hands of an infant but eleven years old when Mr. Hastings quitted that country!