Still more might it have been expected, when that dominion was found to issue from the bosom of a free country, that it would have carried with it the full benefit of the vital principle of the British liberty and Constitution, though its municipal forms were not communicable, or at least the advantage of the liberty and spirit of the British Constitution.

Had this been the case, (alas! it was not,) you would have been saved the trouble of this day.
It might have been expected, too, that, in that enlightened state of the world, influenced by the best religion, and from an improved description of that best religion, (I mean the Christian reformed religion,) that we should have done honor to Europe, to letters, to laws, to religion,--done honor to all the circumstances of which in this island we boast ourselves, at the great and critical moment of that revolution.
My Lords, it has happened otherwise.

It is now left for us to repair our former errors.

Resuming the history where I broke off yesterday by your indulgence to my weakness,--Surajah Dowlah was the adopted grandson of Aliverdy Khan, a cruel and ferocious tyrant, the manner of whose acquisition of power I have already stated.

He came too young and unexperienced to that throne of usurpation.