Your Lordships are not to expect that that should happen in such a body which never happened in any body or corporation,--that is, that they should, in any instance, be a proper check and control upon themselves.

It is not in the nature of things.
The fundamental principle of the whole of the East India Company's system is monopoly, in some sense or other.

The same principle predominates in the service abroad and the service at home; and both systems are united into one, animated with the same spirit, that is, with the corporate spirit.

The whole, taken together, is such as has not been seen in the examples of the Moors, the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Romans,--in no old, in no recent examples.

The Dutch may resemble it, but they have not an empire properly so denominated.