, but could not give any more satisfaction in this particular
than in those relative to the bonds.

The title of the account of the 22d of May purports not only that those
sums were paid into the Company's treasury by Mr. Hastings's order, but
that they were applied to the Company's service. No service is
specified, directly or by any reference, to which this great sum of
money has been applied.

Two extraordinary articles follow this, in the May account, amounting to
about 29,000_l._[40] These articles are called Receipts for Durbar
Charges. The general head of Durbar Charges, made by persons in office,
when analyzed into the particulars, contains various expenses, including
bounties and presents made by government, chiefly in the foreign
department. 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._; if the 11,600_l._ bond in October be added, it will be
upwards of 128,000_l._ received in a secret manner by Mr. Hastings in
about one year and five months. To all these he adds another sum of one
hundred thousand pounds, received as a present from the Subah of Oude.
Total, upwards of 228,000_l._

Your Committee find that this last is the only sum the giver of which
Mr. Hastings has thought proper to declare. It is to be observed, that
he did not receiv