They sent him out with such powers as no servant of the Company ever held before.

I would not be understood here in my own character, much less in the delegated character in which I stand, to contend for any man in the totality of his conduct.

Perhaps in some of his measures he was mistaken, and in some of his acts reprehensible; but justice obliges me to say, that the plan which he formed and the course which he pursued were in general great and well imagined,--that he laid great foundations, if they had been properly built upon.

For, in the first place, he composed all the neighboring countries torn to pieces by the wars of Cossim Ali, and quieted the apprehensions raised by the opinion of the boundless ambition of England.

He took strong measures to put an end to a great many of the abuses that prevailed in the country subject to the Company.