[171] The great question, how the trade with the East should for the future be carried on, was referred to a Committee.

The report was to have been made on the twenty-seventh of January 1690; but on that very day the Parliament ceased to exist.
The first two sessions of the succeeding Parliament were so short and so busy that little was said about India in either House.

But, out of Parliament, all the arts both of controversy and of intrigue were employed on both sides.

Almost as many pamphlets were published about the India trade as about the oaths.

The despot of Leadenhall Street was libelled in prose and verse.