Were your Honorable Court to question
me upon these points, I would answer, that the sums were taken for the
Company's benefit at times in which the Company very much needed
them,--that I either chose to conceal the first receipts from public
curiosity by receiving bonds for the amount, or possibly acted without
any studied design which my memory could at this distance of time
verify, and that I did not think it worth my care to observe the same
means with the rest. I trust, Honorable Sirs, to your breasts for a
candid interpretation of my actions, and assume the freedom to add, that
I think myself, on such a subject, and on such an occasion, entitled to
it.
I have the honor to be, Honorable Sirs,
Your most faithful, most obedient,
and most humble servant,
WARREN HASTINGS.
B. No. 4.
_An Account of Sums received on the Account of the Honorable Company of
the Governor-General, or paid to their Treasury by his Order, and
applied to their Service._
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