Excerpt from Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 128: Commencing With the Accession of William IV., 16 and 17 Victoriæ, 1853, Comprising the Period From the Thirteenth Day of June, to the Eighth Day of July, 1853

Money - that he had kept private accounts with American cultivators, whom it was his duty to have controlled - that he had been selling instruments of cultivation to them and it was further found that he was in partnership with a gentleman who had been a candidate for the direction, and who was his partner under the name of his son - that son being a minor. I sent home those facts to the Court of Directors for their investigation: I apprehend that they did not think it necessary for them to divulge the circumstances under which that gentleman stood to the public, and the Court of Proprietors, in ignorance of those facts, elected him a Director, and there he is now. There is another case, of which I do not know the particulars so perfectly, and which, therefore, perhaps, I should not mention. It related to a gentleman who was appointed by the Court to a most con fidential office about the Mint, and that gentleman's conduct was twice inquired into. He came back after the first ia quiry, and, notwithstanding the previous inquiry, there was subsequently another one. Knowing these facts, and knowing how much jobbery there may be in sending out from England, without any previous service in India, officers for particular situa tions of this description, I think it most essential that the patronage of all these appointments should be exercised by the Court, under the control of the Crown. But, my Lords, while we endeavour to do in 'india what we can, and to improve, as far as we can, the Home Government of India as administered here, I should really be tri¿ing with your Lordships if I were not frankly to declare to you my fixed opi nion that, after all, the whole character of the government in India must entirely depend upon the character of the Governor General. He, my Lords, is alone respon sible for every act of government. Few in this country know even the names of the members of his Council, and, if they were known, no one would ever think of looking to them as responsible for every measure adopted in India. The Governor General is alone responsible. Now, my Lords, only for a moment compare his situation with that of the Prime Minister of the Crown in this country. My noble Friend is sur rounded by gentlemen, I will not say of equal but of nearly equal ability with him self, in every department of the Govern 1ent. They are the objects of his own lection. He knows them, and he has re confidence in them. All the more.

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