The Standard of last night puts in the following concise
form the pleadings in the case against Lord Ellenborough on account of the Somnath proclamation— "Lord Auckland made an unprovoked and unprofitable war on Afghanistan. " Yes : but Lord Ellenborough made a silly and improper proclamation. "Lord Auckland made himself an Earl, and Lord Keane a Peer, by repre-
sentations now proved to be utterly groundless. " Yes : but Lord Ellenborough made a silly and improper proclamation.
"Lord Auckland sacrificed 17,000 of the Queen's subjects, prostrated the honour of the British arms, and imminently endangered the whole of her Ma- jesty's Indian empire by his unspeakable folly. " Yes : but Lord Ellenborough made a silly and improper proclamation. "Lord Auckland, or somebody for him, sought to excuse his crimes and blunders by garbling the despatches of Sir Alexander Burnes; thus dis- honouring a gallant and good man, who perished in the service of his country, and grossly deceiving the Parliament and the country. " Yes : but Lord Ellenborough made a silly and improper proclamation. "Now for Lord Ellenborough. Be in six months has repaired, by the most splendid successes, all the frightful injuries inflicted by the preceding Governor, vindicated the honour of the British arms, avenged the blood of our slaughtered fellow-subjects, restored the British name in India, and exchanged a state of extreme danger for one of perfect security. "Yea, this is all true : but then he made a silly and improper proclamation."
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