 Yet at the same period he was spending considerable sums on the rebuilding of his London house in Soho Square.Most of his property, including his share in the rotten borough at Gatton, was sold to meet his liabilities, and a commission of bankruptcy was taken out against him in 1777.He retired to Boulogne-sur-Mer, so poor that the East India Company had to vote him a pension, but later returned to England and managed eventually to pay his creditors in full so that some inheritance was left for his descendants.