As to the manner in which these sums have been expended, the reference which I have made of it, in the accompanying account, to the several accounts in which they are credited, renders any other specification of it unnecessary; besides that those accounts either have or will have received a much stronger authentication than any that I could give to mine.

Why these sums were taken by me,—­why they were, except the second, quietly transferred to the Company’s use,—­why bonds were taken for the first, and not for the rest,—­might, were this matter to be exposed to the view of the public, furnish a variety of conjectures, to which it would be of little use to reply.  Were your Honorable Court to question me upon these points, I would answer, that the sums were taken for the Company’s benefit at times in which the Company very much needed them,—­that I either chose to conceal the first receipts from public curiosity by receiving bonds for the amount, or possibly acted without any studied design which my memory could at this distance of time verify, and that I did not think it worth my care to observe the same means with the rest.  I trust, Honorable Sirs, to your breasts for a candid interpretation of my actions, and assume the freedom to add, that I think myself, on such a subject, and on such an occasion, entitled to it.

  I have the honor to be, Honorable Sirs,
    Your most faithful, most obedient,
      and most humble servant,

  WARREN HASTINGS.

B. No. 4.

An Account of Sums received on the Account of the Honorable Company of the Governor-General, or paid to their Treasury by his Order, and applied to their Service.

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1780.                                            |
October.                                         |
The following sums were paid into the    |
Treasury, and bonds granted for the same, in the |
name of the Governor-General, in whose possession|
the bonds remain, with a declaration upon each   |
indorsed and signed by him, that he has no claim |
on the Company for the amount either of principal|
or interest, no part of the latter having been   |
received:                                         |
|
One bond, dated the 1st October,                 |
1780, No. 1539                1,16,000  0  0   |
|
One bond, dated the 2d October,                  |
1780, No. 1540                1,16,000  0  0   |
|
One bond, dated the 23d November,                |
1780, No. 1354                  1,74,000 0 0   |
--------------   |  4,06,000  0  0
November.                                        |
Paid into the Treasury, and carried      |
to the Governor-General’s credit in the          |
12th page of the Deposits Journal of 1780-81,    |
mohurs of sorts which had been coined in the     |
Mint, and produced, as per 358 and 359           |
pages of the Company’s General Journal of        |
1780-81:                                          |