If it is fit to administer justice to the great body of the people, why should we exempt a mere handful of settlers from its jurisdiction?
There certainly is, I will not say the reality, but the semblance of partiality and tyranny in the distinction made by the Charter Act of 1813.

That distinction seems to indicate a notion that the natives of India may well put up with something less than justice, or that Englishmen in India have a title to something more than justice.

If we give our own countrymen an appeal to the King's Courts, in cases in which all others are forced to be contented with the Company's Courts, we do in fact cry down the Company's Courts.

We proclaim to the Indian people that there are two sorts of justice--a coarse one, which we think good enough for then, and another of superior quality, which we keep for ourselves.

If we take pains to show that we distrust our highest courts, how can we expect that the natives of the country will place confidence in them?
"The draft of the Act was published, and was, as I fully expected, not unfavourably received by the British in the Mofussil.