When the Tartars entered into China, when the Arabs and Tartars successively entered into Hindostan, when the Goths and Vandals penetrated into Europe, when the Normans forced their way into England, indeed, in all conquests, migrations, settlements, and colonizations, the new people came as the offset of a nation.

The Company in India does not exist as a national colony.

In effect and substance nobody can go thither that does not go in its service.

The English in India are nothing but a seminary for the succession of officers.

They are a nation of placemen; they are a commonwealth without a people; they are a state made up wholly of magistrates.