In the first place, he stated to the Council, on the 18th of April, 1781, that in the month of November, 1780, a petition was presented to him by a considerable number of Mussulmen, in compliance with which this Mahometan college appears to have been founded.  It next appears from his statement, that in the April following, (that is, within about six months after the foundation,) many students had finished their education.  You see what a hot-bed bribery and corruption is.  Our universities cannot furnish an education in six years:  in India they have completed it within six months, and have taken their degrees.

Mr. Hastings says, “I have supported this establishment to this time at my own expense; I desire the Company will now defray the charge of it.”  He then calculates what the expenses were; he calculates that the building would cost about 6,000_l._, and he gets from the Company a bond to raise money for paying this 6,000_l._ You apparently have the building now at the public expense, and Mr. Hastings still stands charged with the expense of the college for six months.  He then proposes that a tract of land should be given for the college, to the value of about three thousand odd pounds a year,—­and that in the mean time there should be a certain sum allotted for its expenses.  After this Mr. Hastings writes a letter from the Ganges to the Company, in which he says not a word about the expense of the building, but says that the college was founded and maintained at his own expense, though it was thought to be maintained by the Company; and he fixes the commencement of the expense in September, 1779.  But, after all, we find that the very professor who was to be settled there never so much as arrived in Calcutta, or showed his face there, till some time afterwards.  And look at Mr. Larkins’s private accounts, and you will find that he charges the expense to have commenced not until October, 1781.  It is no error, because it runs through and is so accounted in the whole:  and it thus appears that he has charged, falsely and fraudulently, a year more for that establishment than it cost him.

At last, then, when he was coming away, (for I hasten to the conclusion of an affair ludicrous indeed in some respects, but not unworthy of your Lordships’ consideration,) “after remarking that he had experienced for three years the utility of this institution, he recommends that they will establish a fund for 3,000_l._ a year for it, and give it to the master.”  He had left Gunga Govind Sing as a Gentoo legacy, and he now leaves the Mussulman as a Mahometan legacy to the Company.