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presumed to attend it, in order to make it a place advantageous to the holder thereof. That
the said Palmer did apply to the board at Calcutta for a new authority to continue the said
establishments,—he conceiving their continuance, "after the period of the Governor-
General's departure, depended upon the pleasure of the board, and not upon the authority of
the Governor-General, under the sanction of which they were established or confirmed."

XCI. That the said Warren Hastings, in order to ruin the Resident Bristow, and to justify
himself for his former proceedings respecting him, did bring before the board a new charge
against him, for having paid a large establishment of offices and pensions to the Company's
servants from the revenues of Oude; and the said Bristow, in making his defence against the
charge aforesaid, did plead, that he had found all the allowances on his list established
before his last appointment to the Residency,—that they had grown to that excess in the
interval between his first removal by the said Warren Hastings and his reappointment; and
having adduced many reasons to make it highly probable that the said Hastings was
perfectly well acquainted with it, and did approve of the expensive establishments which
he, the said Bristow, simply had paid, but not imposed, he did allege, besides the official
assurances of his predecessor, Middleton, certain facts, as amounting to a direct proof that
the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, was not averse to the Vizier's granting large
salaries to more than one European gentleman. And the first instance was to Mr. Thomas, a
surgeon, who, exclusive of his pay from the Company, which was 1,440l. a year, claimed
from the Vizier, with Mr. Hastings's knowledge, the sum of 9,763l. a year, and upwards,
making together 11,203l. per annum. The next was Mr. Trevor Wheler, who did receive,
upon the same establishment, when he was Fourth Assistant at Oude, 6,000l. a year; and
which last fact the said Hastings has admitted upon record "that the accusations of Mr.
Bristow and Mr. Cowper did oblige and compel him to acknowledge,"—denying, at the

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