India Courier Extraordinary Volume 6; Proceedings of Parliament Relating to W. Hastings (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ...obtain it; yet at last he was come: He had positive orders to act, in every respect, as he should think best; that he was possessed of sull and complete authority; that he should cause the Treasurer and Comptroller to be appointed this year; and from the beginning Vol. Ill, quence of that treaty: --" I n?ad scarcely in"form you, that my chief object, in my ne"gociations with the Nabob, has been to in"duce and assist him to bring his Government "and sinances into such regularity, as to pre"vent his alliance from being a clog, instead "of an aid, to the Company; and to enable "him to discharge his debt in the shortest "time possible. To this end, the most es"sential point is, to limit and separate his per"sonal disbursements from the public ac"counts. They must not, in their total an"nual amount, exceed what he has received in any of the last three years. This a"mount, in twelve equal parts, should be "paid him monthly, out of the first re"ceipts."--And also, to this extract of the additional instructions from the Honourable the Governor General to me, conformably to the reserence of the Board: "In my late engage"ment with the Nabob, it was stipulated that "a certain sum should be set apart monthly "for his private expences; and this made a "part of my private instructions to Mr. Mid"dleton: The sum was aster.yards fixed, as I "recollect, at thirty lacks. It was my in"tention and direction that this appropriation "should be made before any other; and this I "make my present injunction to you."--These are the grounds, Gentlemen, upon which I recommended to the Nabob the separation of his public and private sunds; and as it ...