orrespondence with
the governor-general, he remarked that it might be thus
condensed:--"Forasmuch as you have accepted presents, we highly
disapprove of your conduct; but inasmuch as you have applied them to the
credit side of our account, we exceedingly approve your conduct." Major
Scott again defended Hastings; but on this occasion Lord Mulgrave and
Mr. William Grenvilie, who had before differed from Pitt, spoke very
strongly against the accused, and condemned his conduct as highly
criminal, and Scott himself conld not deny the facts alleged against
him. Many members, indeed, who had supported Hastings on the other
charges, voted against him in this, and on a division the motion was
carried by one hundred and sixty-five against fifty-four.

Though two charges remained to be discussed, the house now resumed, and
the report of the committee was brought up by the chairman. It was moved
that the report "be now read the first time;" but it was suggested by
Pitt that the charges considered should be referred to a committee, in
order that they might select the criminal matter out of them, and frame
it into articles of impeachment. Pitt suggested this plan, that he, with
other members, might be left to deliver their votes freely on the grand
question. He wished it to be understood, he said, that he only went to
a certain length, and that he could not join in a vote of impeachment,
which might seem to countenance the whole of each several accusation.
After some objections on the part of Fox, this suggestion was agreed
to, and the report was then turned over to a committee, for the purpose
which Pitt proposed. In the meantime, on the 19th of April, Francis
opened the eighth charge, which related to the management of the
revenues of Bengal. Much had been recently said of the personal
hostility which Francis entertained towards Hastings, and he commenced
his speech by disclaiming such a feeling, and by asserting that his
animosities were all of a public, and not of a private nature; after
which he entered into an elaborate discussion of the charge, enumerating
the different modes which Hastings had adopted of managing the revenues
in question. Major Scott replied to Francis, and on this occasion Pitt
defended the accused; but upon a division the motion was carried
by seventy-one against fifty-five. The committee appointed to frame
articles of impeachment from the first seven resolutions of the house
were...... Burke, Fox, Sherida