s 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 ac