५२८ भारत में अंगरेजी राज होता कि उसने गपों और अन्दाज़िया बातों के इस तमाम ढेर को अपने रही के टोकरे में क्यों नहीं फेक दिया ।"* इतिहास लेखक जेम्स मिल ने इससे भी अधिक योग्यता, निष्पक्षता और परिश्रम के साथ इस तमाम मामले की विवेचना की • “We are called upon to believe that the Nawab Wallajab, in his old age, atter fifty years of faithful allhance and friendship with the English, and thirty years of almost incessant wartare with Hyder Ali and Tipoo Sultan- both of whom, and especially the latter, had seized every opportunity of anjuring him and of loading him with insults,-5uddenly took it into his head to conspire against his frinds of half a Century, and to league with his enemies of thirty years And we are called upon to believe that the time chosen for this sudden change of policy was just when the power of his friends was apparently established without a competitor, and when the power of his old enemy had fallen to nothing, beneath all hope of recovery, Wallajab and Omdatul Omrah are accused of having begun their hosthle intrigues with Tipoo in 1792, after Lord Cornwallis' campaign, when he had been compelled to cede halt his dominions, to pay three crores and thirty lacs of rupees as a war indemnity, and to submit to the humiliating condi- tion of sending two of his sons as hostages to Madras And it is with two of Tippu's officials who were sent to Madras in attendance on these young Princes, that the Nawabs are accused of having concerted and carried on this desperate conspiracy with their discomfited foe against their triumphant friends and allhes “Extravagantly improbable as such a tale of conspiracy must appear, we should of course be bound to believe it if a sufficiency of evidence were produced But not only is there no trustworthy evidence brought forward, but if every statement made by Ghulam Ali and All Raza, Tipu Sultan's Vakils, both in their written reports from Madras found among the records at Seringapatam, and in their depositions before the Commission of enquiry, were to be accepted as truth, it would amount to nothing The proots of dark designs and hostile intentions on the part of Wallajah and his eldest son, which were collected by the Commission of enquiry, are really so
