He sent out to the factories of the Company orders that no indulgence should be shown to the intruders.

For the House of Commons and for its resolutions he expressed the bitterest contempt.

"Be guided by my instructions," he wrote, "and not by the nonsense of a few ignorant country gentlemen who have hardly wit enough to manage their own private affairs, and who know nothing at all about questions of trade." It appears that his directions were obeyed.
Every where in the East, during this period of anarchy, servant of the Company and the independent merchant waged war on each other, accused each other of piracy, and tried by every artifice to exasperate the Mogul government against each other.

[498] The three great constitutional questions of the preceding year were, in this year, again brought under the consideration of Parliament.

In the first week of the session, a Bill for the Regulation of Trials in cases of High Treason, a Triennial Bill, and a Place Bill were laid on the table of the House of Commons.
None of these bills became a law.