be disregarded by the Company's servants in India," and ordered that the increased
allowances should be forthwith discontinued. That the said Warren Hastings, after having
first thought it necessary, in obedience to the orders of the Court of Directors, to stop the
extraordinary allowance which he had granted to Sir John Day, did afterwards resolve that
the allowance which had been struck off should be repaid to him, upon his signing an
obligation to refund the amount which he might receive, in case the Directors should
confirm their former orders, already twice given. That in this transaction the said Warren
Hastings trifled with the authority of the Company, eluded the repeated orders of the
Directors, and exposed the Company to the risk and uncertainty of recovering, at a distant
period, and perhaps by a process of law, a sum of money which they had positively ordered
him not to pay.
That in the latter part of the year 1776, by the death of Colonel Monson, the whole power of
the government of Fort William devolved to the Governor and one member of the Council;
and that from that time the Governor-General and Council have generally consisted of an
even number of persons, in consequence of which the casting voice of the said Warren
Hastings has usually prevailed in the decision of all questions. That about the end of the
year 1776 the whole civil establishment of the said government did not exceed 205,399l.
per annum; that in the year 1783 the said civil establishment had been increased to the
enormous annual sum of 927,945l. That such increase in the civil establishment could not
have taken place, if the said Warren Hastings, who was at the head of the government, with
the power annexed to the casting voice, had not actively promoted the said increase, which
he had power to prevent, and which it was his duty to have prevented. That by such
immoderate waste of the property of his employers, and by such scandalous breach of his
fidelity to them, it was the intention of the said Warren Hastings to gain and secure the