@jespah,
Yes, although it's specific to funds entrusted to someone rather than just general funds to which someone might have access. When the Whigs wanted to bring down Marlborough, they accused him of peculation. He was entitled to 2% of all payroll as Captain General of the Anglo-Dutch-German forces, but his enemies accused him of peculation. He was tried in the House of Lords, and in closed session, showed to the satisfaction of his peers that all of those monies, including those to which he was personally entitled, were spent on the secret service.
One of the evnts which gets passed over in the French Revolution was the mutiny of the
Garde Française at Metz, who accused their officers of peculation. Their officers offered no defense, and the mutiny and rioting spread to other regiments. At the storming of the Bastille, and the market women's attack on Versailles two months later, the army did not intervene. They could no longer trust their soldiers, and it seems that that was because the officers actually were guilty of peculation--they had stolen the soldiers' pay.
