The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

that money, as it was his duty to have done in the first instance, and notwithstanding the
said Directors signified to him their expectation that he should communicate to them
"immediate information of the channel by which this money came into his possession, with
a complete illustration of the cause or causes of so extraordinary an event." But, from
evidence examined in England, it has been discovered that this money was received by the
said Warren Hastings from Cheyt Sing, the Rajah of Benares, who was soon after
dispossessed of all his property and driven from his country and government by the said
Warren Hastings. That, notwithstanding the declaration made by the said Warren Hastings,
that he had actually deposited the sum above mentioned in the hands of the Company's sub-
treasurer for their service, it does not appear that "any entry whatsoever of that or any other
payment by the Governor-General was made in the Treasury accounts at or about the time,"
nor is there any trace in the Company's books of its being actually paid into their treasury. It
appears, then, by the confession of the said Warren Hastings, that this money was received
by him; but it does not appear that he has converted it to the property and use of the
Company.

That in a letter from the said Warren Hastings to the said Court of Directors, dated the 22d
of May, 1782, but not dispatched, as it might and ought to have been, at that time, but
detained and kept back by the said Warren Hastings till the 16th of December following, he
has confessed the receipt of various other sums, amounting (with that which he accepted
from the Nabob of Oude) to nearly two hundred thousand pounds, which sums he affirmed
had been converted to the Company's property through his means, but without discovering
from whom or on what account he received the same. That, instead of converting this
money to the Company's property, as he affirmed he had done, it appears that he had lent
the greater part of it to the Company upon bonds bearing interest, which bonds were

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