"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎٥‎١‎٨] (٦٥٤/٥٣٥)

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ever since the receipt of it. He then proceeded to say
that the Court could not admit any person, "let his rank
be ever so distinguished, or his power ever so predomi
nant, to address it in any other way respecting its judicial
and public functions, than as the humblest suitor who
applies for its protection." " Within these walls," said
the Judge^ " we own no equal, and no superior but God
and the King. The JEast India Company, therefore, and
all those who govern their possessions, however absolute
over those whom they consider their subjects, must be
told, as they have been told ten thousand times before,
that in this Court they are entitled to no more prece
dency and favor than the lowest suitor in it. The only
mode, therefore, in which the writers of this Jetter could
properly address this Court, is through their counsel, by
way of an humble petition." He then spoke of the insult
that had been offered to his Majesty's judges by the sup
position that, in consideration of any political expediency
or state necessity, they could violate the sanctity of their
oaths. On this point he dwelt much, as Sir John Grant
had dwelt upon it in his private letter to Malcolm, and
then, after entering at some length into the circumstances
of the different cases which had brought the Court and
the Government into collision, he concluded by saying
that Sir John Malcolm and the other members of Go
vernment had come forward, by menaces which implied
nothing but violence, to suspend the well-known and
well-established jurisdiction of the Court. " I have but
one course, he said, " to pursue. Private ease and com
fort have never been of any consideration with me ; but
as m the moral conduct of public men it may be laid
down as a golden rule, that nothing can be given in ex
change for an honorable reputation, the public shall
find me at my post; and, although I cannot argue with
those whose strongest argument consists in physical