After this, Mr.Hastings is himself examined.

Your Lordships will look at the transaction at your leisure, and I think you will consider it as a pattern for inquiries of this kind.

Mr.Hastings is examined: he does not recollect.

His memory also fails on a business in which it is not easy to suppose a man could be doubtful,--whether he was present or not: he thinks he was not there,--for that, if he had been there, and acted as interpreter, he could not have forgot it.
I think it is pretty nearly as I state it: if I have fallen into any error or inaccuracy, it is easily rectified; for here is the state of the transaction given by the parties themselves.

On this inaccurate memory of Mr.Hastings, not venturing, however, to say positively that he was not the interpreter, or that he was not present, he is discharged from being an accomplice,--he is removed from the bar, and leaps upon the seat of justice.