Note 225 — FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER 12 CHAP. XIII.

Mr. Vansittart, in his communications with the Nabob, rejected this present previous to the treaty, as it might appear the price of its stipulations: but he intimated, at the same time, that there would be no objection to such present after the obligations of the treaty were fulfilled. The following is a list of the presents acknowledged to have been received on this occasion:—

Mr. Vansittart rupees 500,000 £58,333

Mr. Sumner 240,000 28,000

Mr. Holwell 270,000 30,937

Mr. M'Guire 180,000 20,625

Mr. Smyth 134,000 15,354

Major Yorke 134,000 15,354

General Caillaud 200,000 22,916

Mr. M'Guire 75,000 8,750

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£200,269

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Vide Parl. Reports, vol. iii. p. 311.