though he received the emoluments of the said office: having acted, for the greatest part of
the time, as ambassador to Mahdajee Sindia, with a further salary of 4,280l. a year, making
in all 15,230l. a year. That the said Warren Hastings did create an office of Agent-
Victualler to the garrison of Fort William, whose profits, on an average of three years, were
15,970l. per annum. That this agency was held by the Postmaster-General, who in that
capacity received 2,200l. a year from the Company, and who was actually no higher than a
writer in the service. That the person who held these lucrative offices, viz., John Belli, was
private secretary to the said Warren Hastings.
That the said Warren Hastings created a nominal office of Resident at Goa, where the
Company never had a Resident, nor business of any kind to transact, and gave the said
nominal office to a person who was not a covenanted servant of the Company, with an
allowance of 4,280l. a year.
That these instances are proofs of a criminal profusion and high breach of trust to the India
Company in the said Warren Hastings, under whose government, and by means of whose
special power, derived from the effect of his casting voice, all the said waste and profusion
did take place.
That at the end of the year 1780, when, as the Court of Directors affirm, the Company were
in the utmost distress for money, and almost every department in arrear, and when it
appears that there was a great scarcity and urgent want of grain at Fort St. George, the said
Warren Hastings did accept of a proposal made to him by James Peter Auriol, then
Secretary to the Council, to supply the Presidency of Fort St. George with rice and other
articles, and did appoint the said Auriol to be the agent for supplying all the other
Presidencies with those articles; that the said Warren Hastings declared that the intention of