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and satisfy the demand of the said Sir Eyre Coote, did create for him that new
establishment, hereinbefore specified, of eighteen thousand pounds per annum,—insomuch
that, instead of the allowance of six thousand pounds a year, in lieu of travelling charges,
and of all emoluments and allowances whatsoever, to which the pay and allowances of
commander-in-chief were expressly limited by the united act of the legislative and
executive powers of the Company, the annual charge to be borne by the Company on that
account was increased by the said Warren Hastings to the enormous sum of thirty-eight
thousand two hundred and seventeen pounds ten shillings sterling.

That on the 1st of November, 1779, the said Warren Hastings did move and carry it in
Council, "that the Resident at the Vizier's court should be furnished with an account of all
the extra allowances and charges of the commander-in-chief when in the field, with orders
to add the same to the debit of the Vizier's account, as a part of his general subsidy,—the
charge to commence from the day on which the general shall pass the Caramnassa, and to
continue till his return to the same line." That this additional expense imposed by the said
Warren Hastings on the Vizier was unjust in itself, and a breach of treaty with that prince:
the specific amount of the subsidy to be paid by him having been fixed by a treaty, to which
no addition could justly be made, but at the previous requisition of the Vizier. That the
Court of Directors, in their letter of the 18th of October, 1780, did condemn and prohibit
the continuation of the allowances above mentioned to Sir Eyre Coote in the following
words: "These allowances appear to us in a light so very extraordinary, and so repugnant to
the spirit of a resolution of the General Court of Proprietors respecting the allowance made
to General Clavering, that we positively direct that they be discontinued immediately, and
no part thereof paid after the receipt of this letter." That on the 27th of April, 1781, the
Governor-General and Council, in obedience to the orders of the Directors, did signify the

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