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[30] Kistbundi to July 31, 1780.

[31] Governor's letter to the Nabob, 25th July, 1779.

[32] Report of the Select Committee, Madras Consultations, January 7, 1771. See also papers published by the order of the Court of Directors in 1776; and Lord Macartney's correspondence with Mr. Hastings and the Nabob of Arcot. See also Mr. Dundas's Appendix, No 376, B. Nabob's propositions through Mr. Sulivan and a.s.sam Khan, Art. 6, and indeed the whole.

[33] ”The princ.i.p.al object of the expedition is, to get money from Tanjore to pay the Nabob's debt: if a surplus, to be applied in discharge of the Nabob's debts to his private creditors.”

(Consultations, March 20, 1771; and for further lights, Consultations, 12th June, 1771.) ”We are alarmed lest this debt to _individuals_ should have been the _real_ motive for the aggrandizement of Mahomed Ali [the Nabob of Arcot], and that _we are plunged into a war_ to put him in possession of the Mysore revenues _for the discharge of the debt_.”--Letter from the Directors, March 17, 1769.

[34] Letter from the Nabob, May 1st, 1768; and ditto, 24th April, 1770, 1st October; ditto, 16th September, 1772, 16th March, 1773.

[35] Letter from the Presidency at Madras to the Court of Directors, 27th June, 1769.

[36] Mr. Dundas's committee. Report L, Appendix, No. 29.

[37] Appendix, No. 4, Report of the Committee of a.s.signed Revenue.

[38] Mr. Barnard's map of the Jaghire

[39] See Report IV., Mr. Dundas's committee, p. 46.

[40] Interest is rated in India by the month.

[41] Mr. Dundas's committee. Rep. I. p. 9, and ditto, Rep. IV. 69, where the revenue of 1777 stated only at 22 lacs,--30 lacs stated as the revenue, ”_supposing_ the Carnatic to be _properly_ managed.”

[42] See Appendix, No. 4, statement in the Report of the Committee of a.s.signed Revenue.

[43] The province of Tinnevelly.

[44] Appendix, No. 5.

[45] See extract of their letter in the Appendix, No. 9.

[46] ”It is certain that the incursion of a _few_ of Hyder's horse into the Jaghire, in 1767, cost the Company upwards of paG.o.das 27,000, _in allowances for damages_.”--Consultations, February 11th, 1771.

[47] Proceeding at Madras, 11th February, 1769, and throughout the correspondence on this subject; particularly Consultations, October 4th, 1769, and the creditors' memorial, 20th January, 1770.

[48] Appendix, No. 7.

[49] For some part of these usurious transactions, see Consultation, 28th January, 1781; and for the Nabob's excusing his oppressions on account of these debts, Consultation, 26th November, 1770. ”Still I undertook, first, the payment of the money belonging to the Company, who are my kind friends, and by borrowing, and _mortgaging my jewels, &c._, by _taking from every one of my servants_, in proportion to their circ.u.mstances, by _fresh severities_ also on my country, _notwithstanding its distressed state_, as you know.”--The Board's remark is as follows: after controverting some of the facts, they say, ”That his countries are oppressed is most certain, but not from real necessity; _his debts, indeed, have afforded him a constant pretence_ for using severities and cruel oppressions.”

[50] See Consultation, 28th January, 1781, where it is a.s.serted, and not denied, that the Nabob's farmers of revenue seldom continue for three months together. From this the state of the country may be easily judged of.

[51] In Mr. Fox's speech.

[52] The amended letter, Appendix, No. 9.

[53] Appendix, No. 8.

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