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were defendants. I had the satisfaction of hearing the Court order 
them to pay two lacs and a half to the plaintiff, a shroff of Lucknow. 
The affair was one of the General's frauds, who had borrowed the 
money of him, and several other natives, to lend it to Asoph-ud- 
Dowlah ; and on his being repaid, he refused to return them their 
share; and they dared not complain, as the Nawaub would in- 
stantly have seized it. They, however, kept his bond, and recovered 
on it with interest. 
It will hardly be believed that in this splendid city, the head of 
a mighty Christian empire, there is only one church of the establish- 
ment of the mother country, and that by no means conspicuous, 
either for size or ornament. It is also remarkable, that all British 
India does not afford one Episcopal See, while that advantage has 
been granted to the province of Canada ; yet it is certain that from 
the remoteness of the country , and the peculiar temptations to which 
the freedom of manners exposes the clergy, immediate Episcopal 
superintendance can no where be more requisite. From the want 
of this it is painful to observe, that the characters of too many of 
that order, are by no means creditable to the doctrines they profess, 
which, together with the unedifying contests that prevail among 
them even in the pulpit, tend to lower the religion, and its follow- 
ers, in the eyes of the natives of every description. If there be any 
plan for concihating the minds of the natives to Christianity, it is 
so manifestly essential it should appear to them in a respectable 
form at the seat of Government, that I presume all parties will 
allow, that the first step should be to place it there upon a proper 
footing. 
Since my return to England, I find that an Episcopal establish- 
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