The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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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 £10,950 2d do 9,100 3d do 9,100 4th do 9,100 5th do 9,100 ------ £47,350 That David Anderson, Esquire, first member of the said board, did not execute the duties, 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 4,280_l._ a year, making in all 15,230_l._ 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 15,970_l._ per annum. That this agency was held by the Postmaster-General, who in that capacity received 2,200_l._ 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 4,280_l._ a year. |
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