of sundry sums received on the account of the Honorable Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies were received by Mr. Hastings and paid to the Sub-Treasurer.”  We find here, “Dinagepore peshcush, four lacs of rupees, cabooleat”:  that is, an agreement to pay four lacs of rupees, of which three were received and one remained in balance at the time this account was made out.  All that we can learn from this account, after all our researches, after all the Court of Directors could do to squeeze it out of him, is, that he received from Dinagepore, at twelve monthly payments, a sum of about three lacs of rupees, upon an engagement to pay him four; that is, he received about 30,000_l._ out of 40,000_l._ which was to be paid him:  and we are told that he received this sum through the hands of Gunga Govind Sing; and that he was exceedingly angry with Gunga Govind Sing for having kept back or defrauded him of the sum of 10,000_l._ out of the 40,000_l._ To keep back from him the fourth part of the whole bribe was very reprehensible behavior in Gunga Govind Sing, certainly very unworthy of the great and high trust which Mr. Hastings reposed in his integrity.  My Lords, this letter tells us Mr. Hastings was much irritated at Gunga Govind Sing.  You will hereafter see how Mr. Hastings behaves to persons against whom he is irritated for their frauds upon him in their joint concerns.  In the mean time Gunga Govind Sing rests with you as a person with whom Mr. Hastings is displeased on account of infidelity in the honorable trust of bribe undertaker and manager.

My Lords, you are not very much enlightened, I believe, by seeing these words, Dinagepore peshcush.  We find a province, we find a sum of money, we find an agent, and we find a receiver.  The province is Dinagepore, the agent is Gunga Govind Sing, the sum agreed on is 40,000_l._, and the receiver of a part of that is Mr. Hastings.  This is all that can be seen.  Who it was that gave this sum of money to Mr. Hastings in this manner does no way appear; it is murder by persons unknown:  and this is the way in which Mr. Hastings, after all the reiterated solicitations of Parliament, of the Company, and the public, has left the account of this bribe.

Let us, however, now see what was the state of transactions at Dinagepore at that period.  For, if Mr. Hastings in the transactions at that period did anything for that country, it must be presumed this money was given for those acts; for Mr. Hastings confesses it was a sum of money corruptly received, but honestly applied.  It does not signify much, at first view, from whom he received it; it is enough to fix upon him that he did receive it.  But because the consequences of his bribes make the main part of what I intend to bring before your Lordships, I shall beg to state to you, with your indulgence, what I have been able to discover by a very close investigation of the records respecting this business of Dinagepore.