Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 22.1.4

22.1.4

As if by law and charter, as well as by convenience, every Member of such a Board had been under an absolute obligation of being extravagantly absurd, and tyrannically overbearing; of arrogating every therefore, said he, upon your guard in matters of war, and do not fail to seize such an opportunity as may offer. As Mr. Ellis himself had his heart full against the Navvab, and he reckoned it for certain, that on Mr. Amyatt's making his report to the thing to themselves, and denying every thing to others, that is, of trampling under foot the most obvious and most acknowledged rights of mankind.