Nicholls's Reéollections and Reflections. 
remark in answer to General Burgoyne. 
“ Lord North has played’ a very deep, 
anda very dirty game: he drove Lord 
Clive to the wall; forced him’ to surren- 
der his six ricmbers’ and then albandon- 
ed the accusers.” But; although the 
accusation friled, it broke Loril Clive’s 
heart he fell a victim to the mortifica- 
tion whieb he liad suffered. Lord Clive 
had ‘not been accustomed ‘to public 
speaking, yet he defended himself in the 
debate with great ability, and much dig- 
nity. © He closed his defence with tliese 
words : “ He hoped that while the House 
decided on his honour, they would not 
forget their own.” The mind of Lord 
Clive was certainly cast in the heroic 
mould; atid if our Indian empire is of 
any valtie to Great Britain, Lord Clive 
undoubtedly Jaid the foundation of that 
empire. As an Englishman I am grate- 
fal to-his memory. 
INDIA. 
“Bat ofall our acquisitions, the empire 
which has been formed in India, seems 
to be that which is likely to be produc- 
tive of the most important. consequences. 
Has the British empire in India, down 
to the present time; produced any bene- 
fit’to us?” This is a question which can- 
nt be ‘aliswered without much reflec- 
tidn. Tam ‘hot prepared to say, that our 
pak pall ons in Todia may not have pro- 
d benefit ; but I hesitate much to 
say, that they have upon the whole been 
advantageous tous. The wealth which 
has been brought into this country from 
India, has enabled our government to 
make greater exertions in all its trans- 
actions with foreign states. When 
George 11. invaded the rights of his 
Amcricaa subjects, the wealth of India 
enabled him to support a war against 
France, Spain, and Holland, without re- 
linquishing his expensive efforts against 
the jahabitauts of America, The cru- 
sade against French principles, begun in 
1793, may also be considered as haying 
owed its long continuance to the wealth 
of Tadia,. That wealth enabled the Bris 
lish vernment to subsidize every sove- 
reign Who was willing to. receive ‘its 
money ; ‘but what has been the effect of 
these exertions? You sec it in the luxa- 
yee few, andin the impoverished many. 
is (me, that the wealth of India may 
have enabled us to improve our agricul- 
ture, and our manufactures, and to ex- 
tend our commerce ; but it has led our 
Government to tliose wasteful exertions 
which have more than balaticed these 
adyantages. Patronage, immoderate 
taxation, and the minister's power of 
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corruption, have kept pace with the 
‘growth of our Indian empire. 
I have 
heard’ physicians say, that the juices of 
the'human frame become sometimes so 
Vitiated, that death is’ desirable. Per- 
haps we may be fast approaching to the 
hour, when Revolution, the enthanasia 
of governments, may be looked for as a 
relief. 
But the calamities which T forésee, are 
from the’loss of India.” Sooner or later 
the Indian empiré must be torn from us; 
and our exertions to prevent that loss 
will most probably leave us with every 
resource exhausied. 
It is scarcely possible that our Tadian 
empire can, forany greatlength of time, 
be united to Great Britain. Our go- 
vernment if that country is repugnant 
to the happiness of the inhabitants ; it is 
avowed to be for the bénefit of the go- 
vernors; not of tlie governed it ts a 
government by foreigners, who, as’ fast 
as they acquire wealth, carry it out of 
the country. No relitious of amity grow 
up*beitween the governors ‘atid’ the go- 
verned, Religions uSages obstruct in? 
tercourse beiween the Hindoos and the 
Europeans. Andthe Mahometans, who, 
before our acquisition of empire in that 
country, possessed all offices, both civil 
and military, cannot butiook on us with 
aversion ; their degradation is far greater 
than that of the Hindoos? their “nobles 
seek subsistence as privates among’ our 
troops ; they are hot trusted with power, 
and they are deptived of their’ wealth ; 
even the intercoutse betweém the sexes 
has no fendeney to’ soften thé hatred” of 
the Mahometaiis to thé Huropeais: The 
progeny are left a degraded race} help- 
less and wretched ; despised bythe Bue 
ropeans, and hated by the Mahometans. 
Whenever an additién 18 Made! to. Gar 
empire, thé ‘opulence’ of the! inhabitatits 
is rapidly diminished. © Whéi’ the®vie- 
tory of Plassy laid the foundation of éur 
erentniess in India, there! were’ many 
Hindoss’of prodigious Wealth, and’ Mas 
hometans of great powers’ botli classes 
have disappeired } ‘even'the” Eafopeaus 
who every: year’ go Sut; complain ‘that 
ificy shall return With fortities to: Ways 
proportionaté to thésé Of the’ individuals 
wlio bad ‘preceded ‘tiem! "Phe first coun- 
tries’ whith We ‘Gqfitcd Had the most 
productive” ‘svils 3" trpe the whole of 
Bengal is allovial'Sroun Pinder a hot 
sun, and ape eae Of water, its 
productions a re extént unknown 
in a worthern reliind fand’as the inha-~ 
bitants consume but little, much is feft 
for the ‘European’ conqueror. But in 
Al proportion 
