text: " Of the speeches of these three leaders and the arguments adduced by them he accordingly attempts to give an abstract; though as his information must have been derived we imagine principally through the medium of an interpreter this first essay at Parliamentary reporting is not particularly successful; and if we are to conclude from his constant use of the phrase _zemindars_ to denote the landed interest that he considered the estates of the English proprietors to be held by _zemindarry_ tenures similar to those in Bengal his notions on the subject of the debate must have been considerably perplexed