text:  Yet what if we had spent a million sterling through a period of ten years as a sort of scaffolding for the support of our new edifice whilst yet green and rising? Even in that case and supposing us to have taken our leave of the Dooraunee throne at the end of one year after planting it as firmly as it ever could be planted we should have pocketed six million of pounds sterling that now are gone; whereas we insisted on sinking three millions per annum for the first three years in some bottomless Affghan Chatmoss with the effect (seemingly with the intention) of enabling King Soojah to earn universal hatred by netting a few lacs of rupees