l light! _Cabooleat_ signifies a contract, or an
agreement; and this agreement was, to pay Mr. Hastings, as one should
think, certain sums of money,--it does not say from whom, but only that
such a sum of money was paid, and that there remains such a balance.
When you come and compare the money received by Mr. Croftes with these
cabooleats, you find that the cabooleats amount to 95,000_l._, and that
the receipt has been about 55,000_l._, and that upon the face of this
account there is 40,000_l._ somewhere or other unaccounted for. There
never was such a mode of account-keeping, except in the new system of
this bribe exchequer.

Your Lordships will now see, from this luminous, satisfactory, and clear
account, which could come from no other than a great accountant and a
great financier, establishing some new system of finance, and
recommending it to the world as superior to those old-fashioned foolish
establishments, the Exchequer and Bank of England, what lights are
received from Mr. Hastings.

However, it does so happen that from these obscure hints we have been
able to institute examinations which have discovered such a mass of
fraud, guilt, corruption, and oppression as probably never before
existed since the beginning of the world; and in that darkness we hope
and trust the diligence and zeal of the House of Commons will find light
sufficient to make a full discovery of his base crimes. We hope and
trust, that, after all his concealments, and though he appear resolved
to die in the last dike of prevarication, all his artifices will not be
able to secure him from the siege which the diligence of the House of
Commons has laid to his corruptions.

Your Lordships will remark, in a paragraph, which, though it stands
last, is the first in principle, in Mr. Larkins's letter, that, having
before given his comment, he perorates, as is natural upon such an
occasion. This peroration, as is usual in perorations, is in favor of
the parties speaking it, and _ad conciliandum auditorem_. "Conscious,"
he says, "that the concern which I have had in these transactions needs
neither an apology nor an excuse,"--that is rather extraordinary,
too!--"and that I have in no action of my life sacrificed the duty and
fidelity which I owed to my honorable employers either to the regard
which I felt for another or to the advancement of my own fortune, I
shall conclude this address, firmly relying upon the candor of those
before whom it may be