ah in
1780, to which account it seems to refer, (for it was taken in regular
payments, beginning July, 1780, and ending at the same period in 1781,)
it was a sum of money corruptly taken by him as a judge in a litigation
of inheritance between two great parties. So that he received the sum of
40,000_l._ for a judgment; which, whether that judgment was right or
wrong, true or false, he corruptly received.

This sum was received, as your Lordships will observe, through Gunga
Govind Sing. He was the broker of the agreement: he was the person who
was to receive it by monthly instalments, and he was to pay it to Mr.
Hastings. His son was in the office of Register-General of the whole
country, who had in his custody all the papers, documents, and
everything which could tend to settle a litigation among the parties. If
Mr. Hastings took this bribe from the Rajah of Dinagepore, he took a
bribe from an infant of five years old through the hands of the
Register. That is, the judge receives a bribe through the hands of the
keeper of the genealogies of the family, the records and other
documents, which must have had the principal share in settling the
question.

This history of this Dinagepore peshcush is the public one received by
the Company, and which is entered upon the record,--but not the private,
and probably the true history of this corrupt transaction.

Very soon after this decision, very soon after this peshcush was given,
we find all the officers of the young Rajah, who was supposed to have
given it, turned out of their employment by Gunga Govind Sing,--by the
very man who received the peshcush for Mr. Hastings. We find them all
turned out of their employments; we find them all accused, without any
appearance or trace in the records of any proof of embezzlement, of
neglect in the education of the minor Rajah, of the mismanagement of his
affairs, or the allotment of an unsuitable allowance. And accordingly,
to prevent the relations of his adopted mother, to prevent those who
might be supposed to have an immediate interest in the family, from
abusing the trust of his education and the trust of the management of
his fortune, Gunga Govind Sing, (for I trust your Lordships would not
suffer me, if I had a mind, to quote that tool of a thing, the Committee
of Revenue, bought at 62,000_l._ a year,--you would not suffer me to
name it, especially when you know all the secret agency of bribes in the
hand of Gunga Govind Sing,)--