by the paper No. 1 to be in his charge, he never could obtain from him any further payments on this account.”  Mr. Hastings is exceedingly dissatisfied with those excuses, and this is the whole account of the transaction.  This is the only thing said of Gunga Govind Sing in the account:  he neither states how he came to be employed, or for what he was employed.  It appears, however, from the transaction, as far as we can make our way through this darkness, that he had actually received 10,000_l._ of the money, which he did not account for, and that he pretended that there was an arrear of the rest.  So here Mr. Hastings’s bribe-agent admits that he had received 10,000_l._, but he will not account for it; he says there is an arrear of another 10,000_l._; and thus it appears that he was enabled to take from somebody at Dinagepore, by a cabooleat, 40,000_l._, of which Mr. Hastings can get but 20,000_l._:  there is cent per cent loss upon it.  Mr. Hastings was so exceedingly dissatisfied with this conduct of Gunga Govind Sing, that you would imagine a breach would have immediately ensued between them.  I shall not anticipate what some of my honorable friends will bring before your Lordships; but I tell you, that, so far from quarrelling with Gunga Govind Sing, or being really angry with him, it is only a little pettish love quarrel with Gunga Govind Sing:  amantium irae amoris integratio est.  For Gunga Govind Sing, without having paid him one shilling of this money, attended him to the Ganges; and one of the last acts of Mr. Hastings’s government was to represent this man, who was unfaithful even to fraud, who did not keep the common faith of thieves and robbers, this very man he recommends to the Company as a person who ought to be rewarded, as one of their best and most faithful servants.  And how does he recommend him to be rewarded?  By giving him the estate of another person,—­the way in which Mr. Hastings desires to be always rewarded himself:  for, in calling upon the Company’s justice to give him some money for expenses with which he never charged them, he desires them to assign him the money upon some person of the country.  So here Mr. Hastings recommends Gunga Govind Sing not only to trust, confidence, and employment, which he does very fully, but to a reward taken out of the substance of other people.  This is what Mr. Hastings has done with Gunga Govind Sing; and if such are the effects of his anger, what must be the effect of his pleasure and satisfaction?  Now I say that Mr. Hastings, who, in fact, saw this man amongst the very last with whom he had any communication in India, could not have so recommended him after this known fraud, in one business only, of 20,000_l._,—­he could not so have supported him, he could not so have caressed him, he could not so have employed him, he could not have done all this, unless he had paid to Mr. Hastings privately that sum of money which never was brought into any even of these miserable accounts, without some payment or other with which Mr. Hastings was and ought to be satisfied, or unless Gunga Govind Sing had some dishonorable secret to tell of him which he did not dare to provoke him to give a just account of, or, lastly, unless the original agreement was that half or a third of the bribe should go to Gunga Govind Sing.