Note 195 — FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER 11 CHAP. XII.
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Mr. Watts estimated Lord Pigot's fortune at 400,000l. It had chiefly been made (according to the same authority) by lending money at high interest to the Nabob, the chiefs, and managers of provinces. This practice was then too common to be considered as in any way discreditable; though it was soon afterwards discovered to be one of the most baneful and injurious to the public interests that the Company could tolerate in any of their servants, but above all, in those high in station.