at interval, 40,000_l._ out of 95,000_l._ sunk
somewhere, in some of the turnings over upon the gridiron, through some
of those agents and panders of corruption which Mr. Hastings uses. Here
is the _valuable_ revenue of the Company, _which is to supply them in
their exigencies, which is to come from sources which otherwise never
would have yielded it_,--which, though small in proportion to the other
revenue, yet is a diamond, something that by its value makes amends for
its want of bulk,--falling short by 40,000_l._ out of 95,000_l._ Here is
a system made for fraud, and producing all the effects of it.

Upon the face of this account, the agreement was to yield to Mr.
Hastings, some way or other, to be paid to Mr. Croftes, 95,000_l._, and
there was a deficiency of 40,000_l._ Would any man, even with no more
sense than Mr. Hastings, who wants all the faculties of the human mind,
who has neither memory nor judgment, any man who was that poor
half-idiot creature that Mr. Hastings pretends to be, engage in a
dealing that was to extort from some one or other an agreement to pay
95,000_l._ which was not to produce more than 55,000_l._? What, then, is
become of it? Is it in the hands of Mr. Hastings's wicked bribe-brokers,
or in his own hands? Is it in arrear? Do you know anything about it?
Whom are you to apply to for information? Why, to G.G.S.--G.G.S. I find
to be, what indeed I suspected him to be, a person that I have mentioned
frequently to your Lordships, and that you will often hear of, commonly
called Gunga Govind Sing,--in a short word, the wickedest of the whole
race of banians: the consolidated wickedness of the whole body is to be
found in this man.

Of the deficiency which appears in this agreement with somebody or other
on the part of Mr. Hastings through Gunga Govind Sing you will expect to
hear some explanation. Of the first sum, which is said to have been paid
through Gunga Govind Sing, amounting on the cabooleat to four lac, and
of which no more than two lac was actually received,--that is to say,
half of it was sunk,--we have this memorandum only: "Although Mr.
Hastings was extremely dissatisfied with the excuses Gunga Govind Sing
assigned for not paying Mr. Croftes the sum stated by the paper No. 1 to
be in his charge, he never could obtain from him any further payments
on this account." Mr. Hastings is exceedingly dissatisfied with those
excuses, and this is the whole account of the transaction. This is th