text: " We need not however follow the Khan through the details of the royal speech or the debate on the address which succeeded though in the latter he appears to have been thunderstruck by the freedom of language indulged in by a certain eccentric ex-chancellor remarking "that under the emperors of Delhi such latitude of speech in reference to the sovereign would inevitably have cost the offender his head or at least have ensured his spending the remainder of his life in disgrace and exile at Mekka