The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

attachment and support of a multitude of individuals, by whose united interest, influence,
and intrigues he hoped to be protected against any future inquiry into his conduct. That it
was of itself highly criminal in the said Warren Hastings to have so wasted the property of
the East India Company, and that the purpose to be obtained by such waste was a great
aggravation of that crime.

That among the various instances of profusion by which the civil establishment of Fort
William was increased to the enormous annual sum hereinbefore mentioned, it appears that
a Salt Office was created, of six commissioners, whose annual emoluments were as follows,
viz.:—

£72,807

That a Board of Revenue was created by the said Warren Hastings, consisting of five
commissioners, whose annual emoluments were as follows, viz.:—

1st member, per annum

2d do

3d do

4th do

5th do

£46,350

That David Anderson, Esquire, first member of the said board, did not execute the duties,

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