It seems to us incredible that Ministers should not have
a finer sense of pride, and of what Burke called "the chastity of honour," in these matters. One would have thought that they would have gloried in practising a kind of pedantry in affairs of this kind, and would have said, "Whoever else benefits commercially where my influence can be exerted it shall not be a firm with which I have a family connexion." Instead the new style seems to be : "As long as there is no personal profit on my part and no injury to the public, why should not my friends and relations have a look-in ? " It is clear that the whole of these Indian financial transactions must be thoroughly investigated. We do not suppose there has been cor- ruption, but there does appear to have been carelessness of a most unfortunate kind. Remember that in the case of India we are trustees.
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