pany,--a bribe taken absolutely entirely for himself. He tells
them that he had taken between thirty and forty thousand pounds. This
bribe, which, like the former, he had taken without right, he tells them
that he intends to apply to his own purposes, and he insists upon their
sanction for so doing. He says, he had in vain, upon a former occasion,
appealed to their honor, liberality, and generosity,--that he now
appeals to their justice; and insists upon their decreeing this
bribe--which he had taken without telling them from whom, where, or on
what account--to his own use.

Your Lordships remember, that in the letter which he wrote from Patna,
on the 20th of January, 1782, he there states that he was in tolerable
good circumstances, and that this had arisen from his having continued
long in their service. Now, he has continued two years longer in their
service, and he is reduced to beggary! "This," he says, "is a single
example of a life spent in the accumulation of crores for your benefit,
and doomed in its close to suffer the extremity of private want, and to
sink in obscurity."

So far back as in 1773 he thought that he could save an exceeding good
fortune out of his place. In 1782 he says, with gratitude, that he has
made a decent private competency; but in two years after he sunk to the
extremity of private want. And how does he seek to relieve that want? By
taking a bribe: bribes are no longer taken by him for the Company's
service, but for his own. He takes the bribe with an express intention
of keeping it for his own use, and he calls upon the Company for their
sanction. If the money was taken without right, no claim of his could
justify its being appropriated to himself: nor could the Company so
appropriate it; for no man has a right to be generous out of another's
goods. When he calls upon their justice and generosity, they might
answer, "If you have a just demand upon our treasury, state it, and we
will pay it; if it is a demand upon our generosity, state your merits,
and we will consider them." "But I have paid myself by a bribe; I have
taken another man's money; and I call upon your justice--to do what? to
restore it to its owner? no--to allow me to keep it myself." Think, my
Lords, in what a situation the Company stands! "I have done a great
deal for you; this is the jackal's portion; you have been the lion; I
have been endeavoring to prog for you; I am your bribe-pander, your
factor of corruption, expos