We obtained a million sterling for the Company, upwards of a million for individuals, in the whole a sum of about two millions two hundred and thirty thousand pounds for various purposes, from the prince whom we had set up.

We obtained, too, the town of Calcutta more completely than we had before possessed it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining.

This was the first small seminal principle of the immense territorial acquisitions we have since made in India.
Many circumstances of this acquisition I pass by.

There is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments.

Ours in India had an origin like those which time has sanctified by obscurity.