Mogul Government. Where the fault lay is a question whichwas vehemently disputed at the time, and which it is nowimpossible to decide. The interlopers threw all the blame onthe Company. The Governor of Bombay, they affirmed, hadalways been grasping and violent: but his baronetcy and hismilitary commission had completely turned his head. The verynatives who were employed about the factory had noticed thechange, and had muttered, in their broken English, that theremust be some strange curse attending the word Excellency; forthat, ever since the chief of the strangers was called Excellency,every thing had gone to ruin. Meanwhile, it was said, thebrother in England had sanctioned all the unjust and impoliticacts of the brother in India, till at length insolence and rapine,disgraceful to the English nation and to the Christian religion,had roused the just resentment of the native authorities. TheCompany W'armly recriminated. The story told at the IndiaHouse was that the quarrel w'as entirely the work of the inter-lopers , who were now designated not only as interlopers but astraitors. They had, it was alleged, by flattery, by presents,and by false accusations, induced the viceroys of the Mogul tooppress and persecute the body which in Asia represented theEnglish Crown. And indeed this charge seems not to have beenaltogether without foundation. It is certain that one of themost pertinacious enemies of the Childs went up to the Courtof Aurengzebe, took his station at the palace gate, stopped theGreat King who was in the act of mounting on horseback,and, lifting a petition high in the air, demanded justice inthe name of the common God of Christians and Mussulmans.*Whether Aurengzebe paid much attention to the chargesbrought by infidel Franks against each other may be doubted.But it is certain that a complete rupture took place betweenhis deputies and the servants of the Company. On the sea the* Hamilton’s New Account of the East Indies.