215/219 But the Directors praise him in the gross, after having condemned each act in detail. His actions are _all_, every one, censured one by one as they arise. I do not recollect any one transaction, few there are, I am sure, in the whole body of that succession of crimes now brought before you for your judgment, in which the India Company have not censured him. Nay, in one instance he pleads their censure in bar of this trial;[27] for he says, "In that censure I have already received my punishment." If, for any other reasons, they come and say, "We thank you, Sir, for all your services," to that I answer, Yes; and _I_ would thank him for his services, too, if I knew them. But _I_ do not;--perhaps _they_ do. |