He avowed himself no lover of names, and that he only contended for good government, from whatever quarter it might come.

But the idea of good government coming from the Company he declared to be desperate and untenable.

This intense animosity, which, considering his long and close familiarity with the infamies of the rule of the Company's servants, was not unnatural, must be allowed, however, to have blinded him to the grave objections which really existed to his scheme.

In the first place, the Bill was indisputably inconsistent with the spirit of his revered Constitution.

For the legislature to assume the power of naming the members of an executive body was an extraordinary and mischievous innovation.