In this way Cossim Ali Khan acted, while our government looked on.

I hardly choose to mention to you the fate of a certain native in consequence of a dispute with Mr.Mott, a friend of Mr.Hastings, which is in the Company's records,--records which are almost buried by their own magnitude from the knowledge of this country.
In a contest with this native for his house and property, some scuffle having happened between the parties, the one attempting to seize and the other to defend, the latter made a complaint to the Nabob, who was in an entire subjection at that time to the English, and who ordered this unfortunate man, on account of this very scuffle, arising from defending his property, to be blown off from the mouth of a cannon.

In short, I am not able to tell your Lordships of all the nefarious transactions of this man, whom the intrigues of Mr.Holwell and Mr.
Hastings had set upon the throne of Bengal.

But there is a circumstance in this business that comes across here, and will tend to show another grievance that vexed that country, which vexed it long, and is one of the causes of its chief disasters, and which, I fear, is not so perfectly extirpated but that some part of its roots may remain in the ground at this moment.
Commerce, which enriches every other country in the world, was bringing Bengal to total ruin.

The Company, in former times, when it had no sovereignty or power in the country, had large privileges under their _dustuck_, or permit: their goods passed, without paying duties, through the country.