le not a single rupee was stipulated for
the Company, whose interests were sacrificed, that their servants
might revel in the spoils of a treasury before impoverished, but now
totally exhausted.

"This scene of corruption was first disclosed, at a visit the Nabob
was paid, to Lord Clive and the gentlemen of the Committee, a few
days after our arrival. He there delivered to his Lordship a letter
filled with bitter complaints of the insults and indignities he had
been exposed to, and the embezzlement of near twenty lacs of rupees,
issued from his treasury for purposes unknown, during the late
negotiations. So public a complaint could not be disregarded, and it
soon produced an inquiry. We referred the letter to the board, in
expectation of obtaining a satisfactory account of the application
of this money, and were answered only by a warm remonstrance entered
by Mr. Leycester against that very Nabob in whose elevation he
boasts of having been a principal agent.

"Mahomed Reza Khan, the Naib Subah, was then called upon to account
for this large disbursement from the treasury; and he soon delivered
to the Committee the very extraordinary narrative entered in our
Proceedings the 6th of June, wherein he specifies the several names
and sums, by whom paid, and to whom, whether in cash, bills, or
obligations. So precise, so accurate an account as this of money for
secret and venal services was never, we believe, before this period,
exhibited to the Honorable Court of Directors,--at least, never
vouched by such undeniable testimony and authentic documents: by
Juggut Seet, who himself was obliged to contribute largely to the
sums demanded; by Muley Ram, who was employed by Mr. Johnstone in
all those pecuniary transactions; by the Nabob and Mahomed Reza
Khan, who were the heaviest sufferers; and, lastly, by the
confession of the gentlemen themselves whose names are specified in
the distribution list.

"Juggut Seet expressly declared in his narrative, that the sum which
he agreed to pay the deputation, amounting to 125,000 rupees, was
extorted by menaces; and since the close of our inquiry, and the
opinions we delivered in the Proceedings of the 21st June, it fully
appears that the presents from the Nabob and Mahomed Reza Khan,
exceeding the immense sum of seventeen lacs, were not the volun