London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII
Ἐνταῦθα τί πράττειν ἐχρῆν ἄνδρα τῶν Πλάτωνος καὶ Ἀριστοτέλους ζηλωτὴν δογμάτων;ἆρα περιορᾶν ἀνθρώπους ἀθλίους τοῖς κλέπταις ἐκδιδομένους, ἢ κατὰ δύναμιναὐτοῖς ἀμύνειν, οἶμαι ὡς ἤδη τὸ κύκνειον; ἐξᾴδουσι διὰ τὸ θεμισές ἐργαστήριοντῶν τοιούτων; Ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν αἰσχρὸν εἶναι δοκεῖ τοὺς μὲν χιλιάρχους, ὅταν λείπωσι τὴντάξιν, καταδικάζειν' ... τὴν δὲ ὑπέρ ἀθλίων ἀνθρώπων ἀπολείπειν τάξιν, ὅταν δὲῃπρὸς κλέπτας ἀγωνίζεσθαι τοιούτους, καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος ἡμῖν, ὅσπεροὖν ἔταξεν.
That the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enterfully into the spirit of the transaction on occasion of which it wasdelivered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that, among the princesdependent on this nation in the southern part of India, the mostconsiderable at present is commonly known by the title of the Nabob ofArcot.
This prince owed the establishment of his government, against the claimsof his elder brother, as well as those of other competitors, to the armsand influence of the British East India Company. Being thus establishedin a considerable part of the dominions he now possesses, he began,about the year 1765, to form, at the instigation (as he asserts) of theservants o