We shall now proceed a little further with Mr. Larkins.  The first of the papers from which he took the memoranda was a paper of Cantoo Baboo.  It contained detached payments, amounting in the whole, with the cabooleat, or agreement, to about 95,000_l._ sterling, and of which it appears that there was received by Mr. Croftes 55,000_l._, and no more.

Now will your Lordships be so good as to let it rest in your memory what sort of an exchequer this is, even with regard to its receipts?  As your Lordships have seen the economy and constitution of this office, so now see the receipt.  It appears that in the month of May, 1782, out of the sums beginning to be received in the month of Shawal, that is in July, 1779, there was, during that interval, 40,000_l._ out of 95,000_l._ sunk somewhere, in some of the turnings over upon the gridiron, through some of those agents and panders of corruption which Mr. Hastings uses.  Here is the valuable revenue of the Company, which is to supply them in their exigencies, which is to come from sources which otherwise never would have yielded it,—­which, though small in proportion to the other revenue, yet is a diamond, something that by its value makes amends for its want of bulk,—­falling short by 40,000_l._ out of 95,000_l._ Here is a system made for fraud, and producing all the effects of it.

Upon the face of this account, the agreement was to yield to Mr. Hastings, some way or other, to be paid to Mr. Croftes, 95,000_l._, and there was a deficiency of 40,000_l._ Would any man, even with no more sense than Mr. Hastings, who wants all the faculties of the human mind, who has neither memory nor judgment, any man who was that poor half-idiot creature that Mr. Hastings pretends to be, engage in a dealing that was to extort from some one or other an agreement to pay 95,000_l._ which was not to produce more than 55,000_l._?  What, then, is become of it?  Is it in the hands of Mr. Hastings’s wicked bribe-brokers, or in his own hands?  Is it in arrear?  Do you know anything about it?  Whom are you to apply to for information?  Why, to G.G.S.—­G.G.S.  I find to be, what indeed I suspected him to be, a person that I have mentioned frequently to your Lordships, and that you will often hear of, commonly called Gunga Govind Sing,—­in a short word, the wickedest of the whole race of banians:  the consolidated wickedness of the whole body is to be found in this man.

Of the deficiency which appears in this agreement with somebody or other on the part of Mr. Hastings through Gunga Govind Sing you will expect to hear some explanation.  Of the first sum, which is said to have been paid through Gunga Govind Sing, amounting on the cabooleat to four lac, and of which no more than two lac was actually received,—­that is to say, half of it was sunk,—­we have this memorandum only:  “Although Mr. Hastings was extremely dissatisfied with the excuses Gunga Govind Sing assigned for not paying Mr. Croftes the sum stated