text:  Lord Auckland in listening and his superiors at home in instructing him to listen to the representations of Shah Soojah and to be persuaded by him to embark in the late disastrous and disgraceful campaign were guilty either of an incredible weakness and ignorance of the nature of the cause they were espousing together with an inconceivable degree of short-sightedness as to the most obvious consequences of it or of infamous hypocrisy in making the restoration of Shah Soojah only the pretext and stepping-stone to the conquest of Affghanistan in the most criminal and reckless spirit of imaginary aggrandizement and extension of territory that ever has actuated the rules of India