nothing,
but how to pursue selfish ends by wicked and indirect means. No man ever
knowingly employed a bad man on account of his abilities, but for evil
ends. Mr. Hastings knew this man to be bad; all the world knew him to be
bad; and how did he employ him? In such a manner as that he might be
controlled by others? A great deal might be said for him, if this had
been the case. There might be circumstances in which such a man might be
used in a subordinate capacity. But who ever thought of putting such a
man virtually in possession of the whole authority both of the Committee
and the Council-General, and of the revenues of the whole country?

As soon as we find Gunga Govind Sing here, we find him employed in the
way in which he was meant to be employed: that is to say, we find him
employed in taking corrupt bribes and corrupt presents for Mr. Hastings.
Though the Committee were tools in his hands, he was a tool in the hands
of Mr. Hastings; for he had, as we shall prove, constant, uniform, and
close communications with Mr. Hastings. And, indeed, we may be saved a
good deal of the trouble of proof; for Mr. Hastings himself, by
acknowledging him to be his bribe-broker, has pretty well authenticated
a secret correspondence between them. For the next great bribe as yet
discovered to be taken by Mr. Hastings, about the time of his great
operation of 1781, was the bribe of 40,000_l._, which we charge to have
been privately taken from one of two persons, but from which is not yet
ascertained, but paid to him through this flagitious black agent of his
iniquities, Gunga Govind Sing. The discovery is made by another agent of
his, called Mr. Larkins, one of his white bribe-confidants, and by him
made Accountant-General to the Supreme Presidency. For this sum, so
clandestinely and corruptly taken, he received a bond to himself, on his
own account, as for money lent to the Company. For, upon the frequent,
pressing, tender solicitations of the Court of Directors, always
insinuated to him in a very delicate manner, Mr. Hastings had written to
Mr. Larkins to find out, if he could, some of his own bribes; and
accordingly Mr. Larkins sent over an account of various bribes,--an
account which, even before it comes directly in evidence before you, it
will be pleasant to your Lordships to read. In this account, under the
head, "_Dinagepore, No. 1_," I find "_Duplicate copy of the particulars
of debts, in which the component parts of sundry sum