But then he calls upon his life and his character to oppose to his seal; and though he has declared that Mr.Holwell had intended ill to the Nabob, and that he approved of those measures, and only postponed them, yet he thought it necessary, he says, to quiet the fears of the Nabob; and from this motive he did an act abhorrent to his nature, and which, he says, he expressed his abhorrence of the morning after he signed it: not that he did so; but if he had, I believe it would only have made the thing so many degrees worse.

Your Lordships will observe, that, in this conference, as stated by himself, these reasons and apologies for it did not appear, nor did they appear in the letter, nor anywhere else, till next year, when he came upon his trial.

Then it was immediately recollected that Mr.
Holwell's designs were so wicked they certainly must be known to the Nabob, though he never mentioned them in the conference of the morning or the evening of the 15th; yet such was now the weight and prevalence of them upon the Major's mind, that he calls upon Mr.Hastings to know whether the Nabob was not informed of these designs of Mr.Holwell against him.

Mr.Hastings's memory was not quite correct upon the occasion.

He does not recollect anything of the matter.