ught to account one single shilling they received,
appointed as they were by that council newly made to superintend all the
affairs of the Rajah. There is not one word to be found of an account:
Debi Sing's honor, fidelity, and disinterestedness, and that of Mr.
Goodlad, is sufficient; and that is the way in which the management and
superintendence of one of the greatest houses in that country is given
to the guardianship of strangers. And how is it managed? We find Debi
Sing in possession of the Rajah's family, in possession of his affairs,
in the management of his whole zemindary; and in the course of the next
year he is to give him in farm the whole of the revenues of these three
provinces. Now whether the peshcush was received for the nomination of
the Rajah as a bribe in judgment, or whether Mr. Hastings got it from
Debi Sing as a bribe in office, for appointing him to the guardianship
of a family that did not belong to him, and for the dominion of three
great and once wealthy provinces,--(which is best or worst I shall not
pretend to determine,)--you find the Rajah in his possession; you find
his education, his household, in his possession; the public revenues are
in his possession; they are given over to him.

If we look at the records, the letting of these provinces appears to
have been carried on by the new Committee of Revenue, as the course and
order of business required it should. But by the investigation into Mr.
Hastings's money transactions, the insufficiency and fallacy of these
records is manifest beyond a doubt. From this investigation it is
discovered that it was in reality a bargain secretly struck between the
Governor-General and Debi Sing, and that the Committee were only
employed in the mere official forms. From the time that Mr. Hastings
new-modelled the revenue system, nothing is seen in its true shape. We
now know, in spite of the fallacy of these records, who the true grantor
was: it will not be amiss to go a little further in supplying their
defects, and to inquire a little concerning the grantee. This makes it
necessary for me to inform your Lordships who Debi Sing is.

[_Mr. Burke read the Committee's recommendation of Debi Sing to the
Governor-General and Council; but the copy of the paper alluded to
is wanting._]

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Here is a choice; here is Debi Sing presented for his knowledge in
business, his trust and fidelity, and that he is a