None can be more remarkable than the following list, which, besides sums that we may suppose it to have been in the power of the receivers to conceal, and of the amount of which it is not easy to form a conjecture, were detected and disclosed by the Committee of the House of Commons in 1773.
The rupees are valued according to the rate of exchange of the Company’s bills at the different periods.
_Account of such sums as have been proved or acknowledged before the Committee to have been distributed by the Princes and other natives of Bengal, from the year 1757 to the year 1766, both inclusive; distinguishing the principal times of the said distributions, and specifying the sums received by each person respectively_:—
Resolution in favour of Meer Jaffier—1757.
Rupees. Rupees. £. Mr. Drake (Governor) 280,000 31,500 Col. Clive, as second in the Select } Committee } 280,000 Ditto, as Commander-in-Chief 200,000 Ditto, as a private donation 1,600,000 ————————— 2,080,000 234,000
Mr. Watts, as a Member of the } Committee } 240,000 Ditto, as a private donation 800,000 ——————— 1,040,000 117,000 Major Kilpatrick 240,000 27,000 Ditto, as a private donation 300,000 33,750 Mr. Maningham 240,000 27,000 Mr. Becher 240,000 27,000 Six Members of Council, one lac each 600,000 68,000 Mr. Walsh 500,000 56,250 Mr. Scrafton 200,000 22,500 Mr. Lushington 50,000 5,625 Captain Grant 100,000 11,250 Stipulation to the Navy and Army 600,000 ————————— 1,261,075 Memorandum—the sum of two lacs to Lord Clive, as Commander-in-Chief, must be deducted from this account, it being included in the donation to the army 22,500 ————————— 1,238,575
Mr. Sumner 28,000 Mr. Holwell 270,000 30,937 Mr. M’Guire 180,000 20,628 Mr. Smyth 130,300 15,354 Major Yorke 134,000 15,354 General Caillaud 200,000 22,916 Mr. Vansittart, 1762, received seven lacs, but the two lacs to Gen. Caillaud are included; so that only five lacs must be accounted for here 500,000 58,333 Mr. M’Guire 5,000 gold morhs 75,000 8,750 ——————— 200,269
Stipulation to the Army 2,500,000 291,666 Ditto to the Navy 1,250,000 145,833 ——————— 437,499
Major Munro, in 1764, received from Bulwant Sing 10,000 Ditto, from the Nabob 3,000 The Officers belonging to Major Munro’s family from ditto 3,000 The Army, from the merchants at Benares 400,000 46,666 —————— 62,666