‘Junius Asiaticus’ in the Public Advertiser describing him, after his appearance in Parliament, as ‘an obscure urchin, picked up, fostered and very unmeritedly raised to the highest pinnacle of affluence and pageantry by that deluded Company’, and ‘Gun’s’ letter’ also in the Public Advertiser attacking him even more ferociously: ‘If the opium has not blunted every nerve, if you have one more latent spark of feeling left in your whole frame, I will search out the place where it inhabits and plant a dagger there … I will not represent Your Lordship as the Conqueror of India but as a buyer and
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