Our course is different.

We have not brought before you an obscure offender, who, when his insignificance and weakness are weighed against the power of the prosecution, gives even to public justice something of the appearance of oppression: no, my Lords, we have brought before you the first man of India, in rank, authority, and station.

We have brought before you the chief of the tribe, the head of the whole body of Eastern offenders, a captain-general of iniquity, under whom all the fraud, all the peculation, all the tyranny in India are embodied, disciplined, arrayed, and paid.

This is the person, my Lords, that we bring before you.

We have brought before you such a person, that, if you strike at him with the firm and decided arm of justice, you will not have need of a great many more examples.