coming away, (for I hasten to the conclusion
of an affair ludicrous indeed in some respects, but not unworthy of your
Lordships' consideration,) "after remarking that he had experienced for
three years the utility of this institution, he recommends that they
will establish a fund for 3,000_l._ a year for it, and give it to the
master." He had left Gunga Govind Sing as a Gentoo legacy, and he now
leaves the Mussulman as a Mahometan legacy to the Company.

Your Lordships shall now hear what was the upshot of the whole. The
Company soon afterwards hearing that this college was become the
greatest nuisance in Calcutta, and that it had raised the cries of all
the inhabitants against it, one of their servants, a Mr. Chapman, was
deputed by the Governor, Sir John Shore, to examine into it, and your
Lordships will find the account he gives of it in your minutes. In
short, my Lords, we find that this was a seminary of robbers,
housebreakers, and every nuisance to society; so that the Company was
obliged to turn out the master, and to remodel the whole. Your Lordships
will now judge of the merits and value of this, one of the sets-off
brought forward by the prisoner against the charges which we have
brought forward against him: it began in injustice and peculation, and
ended in a seminary for robbers and housebreakers.

* * * * *

Nothing now remains to be pressed by me upon your Lordships'
consideration, but the account given by the late Governor-General, Earl
Cornwallis, of the state in which he found the country left by his
predecessor, Mr. Hastings, the prisoner at your bar. But, patient as I
know your Lordships to be, I also know that your strength is not
inexhaustible; and though what I have farther to add will not consume
much of your Lordships' time, yet I conceive that there is a necessity
for deferring it to another day.

SPEECH

IN

GENERAL REPLY.

NINTH DAY: MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1794.

My Lords,--I should think it necessary to make an apology to your
Lordships for appearing before you one day more, if I were inclined to
measure this business either by the standard of my own ability, or by my
own impatience, or by any supposed impatience of yours. I know no
measure, in such a case, but the nature of the subject, and the duty
which we owe to it. You will therefore, my Lords, permit me, in a few
words, to lead you back to what we did yesterday, that you may the
better compreh