Everybody at variance with the Council found an advocate in him.

A Parsee broker, named Bomanjee, was under arrest for fraud; Matthews demanded his surrender.

The Council placed Bomanjee in close confinement in the fort, to prevent his being carried off.

Matthews promised Bomanjee's sons he would take one of them to England, and undertook to make the Directors see things in a proper light.
Men charged with abominable crimes received countenance from him.

He told the Council that they were only traders, and had no power to punish anybody.