It was notoriously by the aid of potent Indian interests that the new ministry had acquired a portion of its majority.

To expose the misdeeds of our agents in India was at once to strike the minister who had dexterously secured their support, and to attack one of the great strongholds of parliamentary corruption.

The proceedings against Hastings were, in the first instance, regarded as a sequel to the struggle over Fox's East India Bill.

That these considerations were present in Burke's thought there is no doubt, but they were purely secondary.

It was India itself that stood above all else in his imagination.