A Letter From Warren Hastings Esq Dated 21st of February 1784 With Remarks
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Haftings fays // was not pojfible for him to have been influenced^ In incurring thefe expences, by any purpofe of his own inter eft. The truth of this proportion is not felf- evidenr ; and, if it were, it would be no reafon for carrying them to the Company's account. Who can determine that there is no profit on expenditures made without authority, for which he reimburfes himfelf, and for wuich no vouchers are produced ? As to his motive for doing what he had no fort of rjght to do, whether it w...as pride, or vanity, or oftentation, is immaterial. He, who thinks fuch a qneftion worth difcuf- fmg, muft be paffibnately fond of talking of himfelf. On the three articles, of which the ac- count of No. 4 is compofed, one general re- mark occurs. He begins his letter with averting, that the fums, which he had had occqfion to dijburfe \vzreforjervices required to enable him to execute the duties of his flatten, But ( 31 ) But how the entertainment of learned Muf- fulmen, or the institution of an academy have been neceffary for that purpofe, is a myftery, which he has prudently aban~ doned to the conjectures of the Court of Directors.
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