The court thus completed, Major Calliaud comes manfully forward to make his defence.

Mr.Lushington is taken off his back in the manner we have seen, and no one person remains but Captain Knox.

Now, if Captain Knox was there and assenting, he is an accomplice too.

Captain Knox asserts, that, at the consultation about the murder, he said it was a pity to cut off so fine a young fellow in such a manner,--meaning that fine young fellow the Prince, the descendant of Tamerlane, the present reigning Mogul, from whom the Company derive their present charter.

The purpose to be served by this declaration, if it had any purpose, was, that Captain Knox did not assent to the murder, and that therefore his evidence might be valid.
The defence set up by Major Calliaud was to this effect.