His method of applying general principles to the circumstances of a special case, and of illustrating those principles with just as much literary ornament as would place his views in a pictorial form before the minds of those whom it was his business to convince, is strikingly exhibited in the series of papers by means of which he reconciled his colleagues in the Council, and his masters in Leadenhall Street, to the removal of the modified Censorship which existed in India previously to the year 1835.
"It is difficult," he writes, "to conceive that any measures can be more indefensible than those which I propose to repeal.

It has always been the practice of politic rulers to disguise their arbitrary measures under popular forms and names.

The conduct of the Indian Government with respect to the Press has been altogether at variance with this trite and obvious maxim.

The newspapers have for years been allowed as ample a measure of practical liberty as that which they enjoy in England.

If any inconveniences arise from the liberty of political discussion, to those inconveniences we are already subject.