for some purpose, but from whom we know not, nor where; that
there is a place called Dinagepore; and that Mr. Hastings received some
money from somebody in Dinagepore.

The next article is _Patna_. Your Lordships are not so ill acquainted
with the geography of India as not to know that there is such a place as
Patna, nor so ill acquainted with the chronology of it as not to know
that there are three months called Baisakh, Asin, Chait. Here was paid
to Mr. Croftes two lac of rupees, and there was left a balance of about
two more. But though you learn with regard to the province of Dinagepore
that there is a balance to be discharged by G.G.S., yet with regard to
Patna we have not even a G.G.S.: we have no sort of light whatever to
know through whose hands the money passed, nor any glimpse of light
whatever respecting it.

You may expect to be made amends in the other province, called _Nuddea_,
where Mr. Hastings had received a considerable sum of money. There is
the very same darkness: not a word from whom received, by whom received,
or any other circumstance, but that it was paid into the hands of Mr.
Hastings's _white banian_, as he was commonly called in that country,
into the hands of Mr. Croftes, who is his white agent in receiving
bribes: for he was very far from having but one.

After all this inquiry, after so many severe animadversions from the
House of Commons, after all those reiterated letters from the
Directors, after an application to Mr. Hastings himself, when you are
hunting to get at some explanation of the proceedings mentioned in the
letter of the month of May, 1782, you receive here by Mr. Larkins's
letter, which is dated the 5th of August, 1786, this account, which, to
be sure, gives an amazing light into this business: it is a letter for
which it was worth sending to Bengal, worth waiting for with all that
anxious expectation with which men wait for great events. Upon the face
of the account there is not one single word which can tend to illustrate
the matter: he sums up the whole, and makes out that there was received
five lac and fifty thousand rupees, that is to say, 55,000_l._, out of
the sum of nine lac and fifty thousand engaged to be paid: namely,--

From Dinagepore 4,00,000
From Nuddea 1,50,000
And from Patna 4,00,000
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9,50,000
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Or L95,000

Now you have got ful