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those affected ; and fraught with danger to our 

 rule, by leading the people of India to con- 

 sider us, from such actions, devoid of honour, 

 principle, and truth. If I am right on this 

 point, and my opinion is borne out by those of 

 the most eminent of our Indian statesmen. 

 Lord Dalhousie's measures must be condemned 

 as totally at variance with that broad-based 

 and upright course of policy that ought to have 

 been our pride, as it was om' interest, to main- 

 tain : but to our subject. The case of the Car- 

 natic Stipendiaries is another story of great 

 wrong, the exercise of might against right, 

 exhibiting the most cruel breach of faith to- 

 wards the nobility of the Carnatic. Yet, though 

 their Wukeel, or agent, has been for eight years 

 seeking justice in England, that justice is still 

 withheld. So glaring, however, has been our 

 breach of faith in the case of the Stipendiaries, 

 that a late Secretary to the Board of Control, 

 when presiding at a meeting of all the Carnatic 

 Stipendiaries in Madras, expressed his sympathy 

 for their wrongs, and declared that the recital 

 of them caused him to feel shame at being an 

 Englishman. Their unhappy story is in this 

 wise : — Upon the death of the Nawab Oomdut 



