his sum. This bribe, you might imagine,
would have been entered by Mr. Larkins to some public account, at least
to the fraudulent account of Mr. Hastings. No such thing. It was never
entered till the November following. It was not entered till Mr. Francis
had left Calcutta. All these corrupt transactions were carried on
privately by Mr. Hastings alone, without any signification to his
colleagues of his carrying on this patriotic traffic, as he called it.
Your Lordships will also consider both the person who employs such a
fraudulent accountant, and his ideas of his duty in his office. These
are matters for your Lordships' grave determination; but I appeal to
you, upon the face of these accounts, whether you ever saw anything so
gross,--and whether any man could be daring enough to attempt to impose
upon the credulity of the weakest of mankind, much more to impose upon
such a court as this, such accounts as these are.

If the Company had a mind to inquire what is become of all the debts due
to them, and where is the cabooleat, he refers them to Gunga Govind
Sing. "Give us," say they, "an account of this balance that remains in
your hands." "I know," says he, "of no balance." "Why, is there not a
cabooleat?" "Where is it? What are the date and circumstances of it?
There is no such cabooleat existing." This is the case even where you
have the name of the person through whose hands the money passed. But
suppose the inquiry went to the payments of the Patna cabooleat. "Here,"
they say, "we find half the money due: out of forty thousand pounds
there is only twenty thousand received: give us some account of it." Who
is to give an account of it? Here there is no mention made of the name
of the person who had the cabooleat: whom can they call upon? Mr.
Hastings does not remember; Mr. Larkins does not tell; they can learn
nothing about it. If the Directors had a disposition, and were honest
enough to the Proprietors and the nation to inquire into it, there is
not a hint given, by either of those persons, who received the Nuddea,
who received the Patna, who received the Dinagepore peshcush.

But in what court can a suit be instituted, and against whom, for the
recovery of this balance of 40,000_l._ out of 95,000_l._? I wish your
Lordships to examine strictly this account,--to examine strictly every
part, both of the account itself, and Mr. Larkins's explanation: compare
them together, and divine, if you can, what remedy the Compan