ny points so unintelligible, that
we feel ourselves under the necessity of calling on the Governor-General
for an explanation, agreeable to his promise voluntarily made to us. We
therefore desire to be informed of the different periods when each sum
was received, and what were the Governor-General's motives for
withholding the several receipts from the knowledge of the Council and
of the Court of Directors, and what were his reasons for taking bonds
for part of these sums and paying other sums into the treasury as
deposits upon his own account." Such is their demand, and this is what
his memory furnishes as nothing but a reprehension.

He then proceeds:--"First, I believe I can affirm with certainty that
the several sums mentioned in the account transmitted with my letter
above mentioned were received at or within a very few days of the dates
which are affixed to them in the account. But as this contains only the
gross sums, and each of these was received in different payments, though
at no great distance of time, I cannot therefore assign a great degree
of accuracy to the account."--Your Lordships see, that, after all, he
declares he cannot make his account accurate. He further adds, "Perhaps
the Honorable Court will judge this sufficient"--that is, this
explanation, namely, that he can give none--"for any purpose to which
their inquiry was directed; but if it should not be so, I will beg leave
to refer, for a more minute information, and for the means of making any
investigation which they may think it proper to direct, respecting the
particulars of this transaction, to Mr. Larkins, your
accountant-general, who was privy to every process of it, and possesses,
as I believe, the original paper, which contained the only account that
I ever kept of it."

Here is a man who of his bribe accounts cannot give an account in the
country where they are carried on. When you call upon him in Bengal, he
cannot give the account, because he is in Bengal; when he comes to
England, he cannot give the account here, because his accounts are left
in Bengal. Again, he keeps no accounts himself, but his accounts are in
Bengal, in the hands of somebody else: to him he refers, and we shall
see what that reference produced.

"In this, each receipt was, as I recollect, specifically inserted, with
the name of the person by whom it was made; and I shall write to him to
desire that he will furnish you with the paper itself, if it is still in
be