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 statement, was paid to him personally by the Nizam's Government. This money, the complainant by his counsel Mr. Buttenburgh, has once admitted, in open Court, to have been paid to him as a bribe. In the present case, however, he has attempted to prove that he received it for work done. Interrogated as to the nature of the work, he stated that it was translation but was only able to give one instance of such work, namely the translation for publication in his paper of the speech made by the present Minister on assuming office. It is clear, therefore, that there must have been some other reason for this payment to which, it may be noted, the complainant told the Court that he had only a moral claim. The reason does not seem far to seek. For, looking to the concealment in the way the money was paid, the Manager of the "Deccan Times" being made the ostensible proprietor, and subscription for copies of the paper (never supplied) the ostensible reason, and looking to the tone of Mr. Gallagher's letter to the Secretary to Government, dated the 11th June 1888, there can be little doubt that the payment was, as Mr. Buttenburg said, nothing but a bribe to secure to the Government the support of the outwardly impartial Editor of the "Deccan Times." Again, Mr. Gallagher has admitted that he also receives a monthly payment from the Nizam's Government. He has indeed attempted to make out that the Government employed him in the capacity of a legal adviser, but, having regard to his claims to be considered a member of the legal profession, such a supposition must, I think, be dismissed as impossible. The true explanation is rather that it is only a continuation of the policy inaugurated by the payment of the Rs.2,400."

Then the Judge notices the two letters written by Mr. Gallagher to Mr. Shapurjee while in charge of the "Deccan Times" about Abdul Hak's offer of ten thousand Rupees and his (Mr. G's) willingness to play the candid friend "when he would find sufficient cause for offence" against Hak-for comments on which in the Hindu." I was threatened, you will remember page 93