On the 11th Dudley and Rouse, the chairman and deputy-chairman of the Company, appeared before the House, and declaring they thought that the printing of any of their papers, except the Charters and Firmans, might be prejudicial to their affairs, Conway candidly desired the House would retract the order for printing them, and it was agreed to: he having wished for a sight of all charters, Norton eagerly seized the proposal, Lord Mansfield--ever hostile to Lord Chatham--having discovered in one of the oldest charters that a power had been granted to the Company of making war, and the old Company had transferred all their rights to the new. Dempster, and the younger Burke, who had engaged deeply in India Stock, were the persons that gave the greatest opposition to the pursuits of the Ministers. Edmund Burke, too, assisted by the friendship of Lord Verney, trafficked in the same funds, and made a considerable fortune, most part of which he lost again afterwards by a new fluctuation in the same transactions,[336] and which probably produced, as will be seen, another revolution in the factions of these times. Sullivan, a leading personage in Indian affairs, sought by various proposals to get the negotiation into his own hands, but those subordinate intrigues are foreign to my purpose. CHAPTER XX Provision for the King’s Brothers.--Debate.--Death of the Marquis of Tavistock.--Of the Dauphiness.--The Indian Papers.--Intrigues of Grenville.--Regulation of America.--Temper in which the Americans received the Repeal.--New Project of using Force towards the Colonies.--Discussion in the House of Lords on the American Papers.--The East Indian Question.--Real or Affected Insanity of Lord Chatham.--Interview of the Author with the Lord Chancellor.-- The Latter lets out a Secret which is turned to Advantage by Walpole.--Debate on an Act of the Assembly of Massachusets.-- Attempted Reconciliation between Conway and Rockingham.