ntrymen, all trampled under
foot by this tyrant,--can we do this; without giving expression to those
feelings which, after animating us in this life, will comfort us when we
die, and will form our best part in another?

My Lords, I am now at the last day of my endeavors to inspire your
Lordships with a just sense of these unexampled atrocities. I have had a
great encyclopedia of crimes to deal with; I will get through them as
soon as I can; and I pray your Lordships to believe, that, if I omit
anything, it is to time I sacrifice it,--that it is to want of strength
I sacrifice it,--that it is to necessity, and not from any despair of
making, from the records and from the evidence, matter so omitted as
black as anything that I have yet brought before you.

The next thing of which I have to remind your Lordships respecting these
black agents of the prisoner is, that we find him, just before his
departure from India, recommending three of them, Gunga Govind Sing,
Gunga Ghose, and Nundulol, as persons fit and necessary to be rewarded
for their services by the Company. Now your Lordships will find, that,
of these faithful domestic servants, there is not one of them who was
not concerned in these enormous briberies, and in betraying their own
native and natural master. If I had time for it, I believe I could trace
every person to be, in proportion to Mr. Hastings's confidence in him,
the author of some great villany. These persons he thinks had not been
sufficiently rewarded, and accordingly he recommends to the board, as
his dying legacy, provision for these faithful attached servants of his,
and particularly for Gunga Govind Sing. The manner in which this man was
to be rewarded makes a part of the history of these transactions, as
curious, perhaps, as was ever exhibited to the world. Your Lordships
will find it in page 2841 of your Minutes.

The Rajah of Dinagepore was a child at that time about eleven years old,
and had succeeded to the Rajahship (by what means I shall say nothing)
when he was about five years old. He is made to apply to Mr. Hastings
for leave to grant a very considerable part of his estate to Gunga
Govind Sing, as a reward for his services. These services could only be
known to the Rajah's family by having robbed it of at least 40,000_l._,
the bribe given to Mr. Hastings. But the Rajah's family is so little
satisfied with this bountiful and liberal donation to Gunga Govind
Sing, that they desire that sev