us nor just, for he had taken money he had no
right to, and did not apply it to the service for which he pretended to
have received it. And now he is generous again, because he gives two lac
of his own money,--and just, because he gives one lac which belonged to
the Company; but there is not an idea suggested from whom he took it.

But to proceed, my Lords. In this letter he tells you he had given two
thirds his own money and one third the Company's money. So it stood upon
the 29th of November, 1780. On the 5th of January following we see the
business take a totally different turn; and then Mr. Hastings calls for
three Company's bonds, upon two different securities, antedated to the
1st and 2d of October, for the three lac, which he before told them was
two thirds his own money and one third the Company's. He now declares
the whole of it to be his own, and he thus applies by letter to the
board, of which he himself was a majority.

"Honorable Sir and Sirs,--Having had occasion to disburse the sum
of three lacs of sicca rupees on account of secret services, which
having been advanced from my own private cash, I request that the
same may be repaid to me in the following manner.

"A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the second loan, bearing
date from 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees.

"A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing
date from 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees."

"A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing
date from the 2d October, for one lac of sicca rupees."

Here are two accounts, one of which must be directly and flatly false:
for he could not have given two thirds his own, and have supplied the
other third from money of the Company's, and at the same time have
advanced the whole as his own. He here goes the full length of the
fraud: he declares that it is all his own,--so much his own that he does
not trust the Company with it, and actually takes their bonds as a
security for it, bearing an interest to be paid to him when he thinks
proper.

Thus it remained from the 5th of January, 1781, till 16th December,
1782, when this business takes another turn, and in a letter of his to
the Company these bonds become all their own. All the money advanced is
now, all of it, the Company's money. First he says two thirds were his
own; next, that the whole is his own; and the third account is, that