same to the Commissary-General, as an instruction to him that the extraordinary allowances
to Sir Eyre Coote should be discontinued, and no part thereof paid after that day. That it
appears, nevertheless, that the said extra allowances (amounting to above twenty thousand
pounds sterling a year) were continued to be charged to the Vizier, and paid to Sir Eyre
Coote, in defiance of the orders of the Court of Directors, in defiance of the consequent
resolution of the Governor-General and Council, and in contradiction to the terms of the
original motion made by the said Warren Hastings for adding those allowances to the debit
of the Vizier, viz., "that they should continue till Sir Eyre Coote's return to the
Caramnassa." That Sir Eyre Coote arrived at Calcutta about the end of August, 1780, and
must have crossed the Caramnassa, in his return from Oude, some weeks before, when the
charge on the Vizier, if at any time proper, ought to have ceased. That it appears that the
said allowances were continued to be charged against the Vizier and paid to Sir Eyre Coote
for three years after, even while he was serving in the Carnatic, and that this was done by
the sole authority and private command of the said Warren Hastings.
That the East India Company having thought proper to create the office of Advocate-
General in Bengal, and to appoint Sir John Day to that office, it was resolved by a General
Court of Proprietors that a salary of three thousand pounds a year should be allowed to the
said Sir John Day, in full consideration of all demands and allowances whatsoever for his
services to the Company at the Presidency of Fort William. That the said Warren Hastings,
nevertheless, shortly after Sir John Day's arrival in Bengal, did increase the said Sir John
Day's salary and allowances to six thousand pounds a year, in direct disobedience of the
resolution of the Court of Proprietors, and of the order of the Court of Directors. That the
Directors, as soon as they were informed of this proceeding, declared, "that they held
themselves bound by the resolution of the General Court, and that they could not allow it to