But in the last account he confesses that this sum also is
not his, but the Company's property; but as in all the rest, so in this,
he carefully conceals the means by which he acquired the money, the time
of his taking it, and the persons from whom it was taken. This is the
more extraordinary, because, in looking over the journals and ledgers
of the Treasury, the presents received and carried to the account of the
Company (which were generally small and complimental) were precisely
entered, with the name of the giver.
Your Committee, on turning to the account of Durbar charges in the
ledger of that month, find the sum, as stated in the account of May 22d,
to be indeed paid in; but there is no specific application whatsoever
entered.
The account of the whole money thus clandestinely received, as stated on
the 22d of May, 1782, (and for a great part of which Mr. Hastings to
that time took credit for, and for the rest has accounted in an
extraordinary manner as his own,) amounts in the whole to upwards of
ninety-three thousand pounds sterling: a vast sum to be so obtained, and
so loosely accounted for! If the money taken from the Rajah of Benares
be added, (as it ought,) it will raise the sum to upwards of
116,000_l.
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