Disadvises his return to England; warns him that ‘the Parliament in less than two years will ring with declamation against the Plunderers of the East. How fair, how great it will then be not to see your name in the list. I do assure you Old Lawrence has a reputation in England which may well be envy’d (with all its fortunes) by the name of Clive. It is these cursed presents which stop my History. Why should I be doomed to commemorate the ignominy of my countrymen, and without giving the money story, that has accompanied every event since the first of April 1757, I shall not relate all the springs of action, that is I shall be a Jesuitical Historian, two terms which Voltaire says are incompatible, for no Jesuit could ever tell a true tale, much less write a true History.’