By means of this peculiar circumstance it has not been difficult for Mr.Hastings to embody abuse, and to put himself at the head of a regular system of corruption.
Another circumstance in that service is deserving of notice.

Except in the highest parts of all, the emoluments of office do not in any degree correspond with the trust, nor the nature of the office with its name.
In other official systems, the style, in general, is above the function; here it is the reverse.

Under the name of junior merchant, senior merchant, writer, and other petty appellations of the counting-house, you have magistrates of high dignity, you have administrators of revenues truly royal, you have judges, civil, and in some respects criminal, who pass judgment upon the greatest properties of a great country.

The legal public emoluments that belong to them are very often so inadequate to the real dignity of the character, that it is impossible, almost absolutely impossible, for the subordinate parts of it, which, though subordinate, are stations of power, to exist, as Englishmen, who look at a fortune to be enjoyed at home as their ultimate object, and to exist in a state of perfect incorruption in that service.
In some parts of Europe, it is true that the greatest situations are often attended with but little emolument; yet still they are filled.
Why?
Because reputation, glory, fame, the esteem, the love, the tears of joy which flow from happy sensibility, the honest applauses of a grateful country, sometimes pay the cares, anxieties, and toils which wait on great situations in the commonwealth; and in these they pay in money what cannot be paid in fame and reputation.

It is the reverse in the service of the India Company.