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Excerpt from The Case of His Highness Prince Azeem Jah: Nawaub of the Carnatic, and Soubahdar of Arcot; In Support of the Petitions by His Highness to the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain
By this decision (which will afterwards be more fully explained) a great wrongwas done to an innocent man; and to those acquainted with the facts, it is difficult at first to refrain from imputing to those by whom the decision was made, the unworthy motive of desiring to replenish an impoverished treasury, by denying the rights of one who was not able to resist their power. But from the imputa tion of such base injustice any association of Eng ish gentlemen, unaccustomed to it in dealings amongst themselves, may well be freed. The British name has become proverbial amongst the nations of the world for its strict fidelity to its engagements in all circumstances, whether these engagements should be to its gain or prove to its loss. Accordingly, by the very Act by which the sovereignty of the great Empire of India was transferred to the Queen, the Legislature took care expressly to provide that all treaties made by the East India Company shall be binding on Her Majesty.
In considering, therefore, the decision of the Directors of the East India Company, it is not possible to conceive it, emanating as it does from a body of high-minded Englishmen, to have been dictated by anything but an honest and conscientious regard to considerations believed to be sound and accurate. Taking this view of the matter, it will be the business of this paper to show, in a manner conclusive and irresistible, that their consideration and decision were erroneous, and must have proceeded upon imperfect information of the real facts of the case.
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