ed," he says, "the duties of his office with
fidelity, diligence, and ability." These are his public merits; but he
has private merits. "To myself," says he, "he has given proofs of
constancy and attachment."

Now we, who have been used to look very diligently over the Company's
records, and to compare one part with another, ask what those services
were, which have so strongly recommended him to Mr. Hastings, and
induced him to speak so favorably of his public services. What those
services are does not appear; we have searched the records for them,
(and those records are very busy and loquacious,) about that period of
time during which Mr. Hastings was laboring under an eclipse, and near
the dragon's mouth, and all the drums of Bengal beating to free him from
this dangerous eclipse. During this time there is nothing publicly done,
there is nothing publicly said, by Gunga Govind Sing. There were, then,
some services of Gunga Govind Sing that lie undiscovered, which he takes
as proofs of attachment. What could they be? They were not public;
nobody knows anything of them; they must, by reference to the time, as
far as we can judge of them, be services of concealment: otherwise, in
the course of this business, it will be necessary, and Mr. Hastings will
find occasion, to show what those personal services of Gunga Govind
Sing to him were. _His_ services to Gunga Govind Sing were pretty
conspicuous: for, after he was turned out for peculation, Mr. Hastings
restored him to his office; and when he had imprisoned fifteen persons
illegally and oppressively, and when the Council were about to set them
at liberty, they were set at liberty themselves, they were dismissed
their offices. Your Lordships see, then, what his public services were.
His private services are unknown: they must be, as we conceive from
their being unknown, of a suspicious nature; and I do not go further
than suspicion, because I never heard, and I have not been without
attempts to make the discovery, what those services were that
recommended him to Mr. Hastings.

Having looked at his public services, which are well-known scenes of
wickedness, barbarity, and corruption, we next come to see what his
reward is. Your Lordships hear what reward he thought proper to secure
for himself; and I believe a man who has power like Gunga Govind Sing,
and a disposition like Gunga Govind Sing, can hardly want the means of
rewarding himself; and if every virtue rewards itself