Volume III Part 6 (2/2)
+---------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Annual Gross Rent| Annual Rent by | | | by the Nabob's | the present | | | Account. | Leases, at an | | | Average of the | Average of | | | Four Years imme- | Four Years. | | | diately preceding| | | | the present War. | | +---------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Star PaG.o.das. | Star PaG.o.das. | | Nellore and | | | | Sarapilly | 3,22,830 | 3,61,900 | | Ongole | 1,10,967[68]| 55,000 | | Palnaud | 51,355 | 53,500 | | Trichinopoly | 2,89,993[69]| 2,73,214 | | Madura | 1,02,756 | 60,290 | | Tinnevelly | 5,65,537 | 5,79,713 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+ | Total | 14,43,438 | 13,83,617 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+
EXPENSES.
+---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Annual Expenses | Annual Expenses | Reduction in the | | | by the Nabob's | allowed by the | Annual Expenses. | | | Accounts. | present Leases | | | | | at an Estimate. | | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Star PaG.o.das. | Star PaG.o.das. | Star PaG.o.das. | | Nellore and | | | | | Sarapilly | 1,98,794 | 33,000 | 1,65,794 | | Ongole | 88,254 |... | 88,254 | | Palnaud | 25,721 | 5,698 | 20,023 | | Trichinopoly | 2,82,148 | 13,143 | 2,63,005 | | Madura | 63,710 | 12,037 | 51,673 | | Tinnevelly | 1,64,098 | 70,368 | 93,730 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | Total | 8,22,725 | 1,40,246 | 6,82,479 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
NET REVENUE.
+---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Net Revenue | Net Revenue | Increase of | | | by the Nabob's | by the | Net Revenue. | | | Accounts. | present Leases. | | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | | Star PaG.o.das. | Star PaG.o.das. | Star PaG.o.das. | | Nellore and | | | | | Sarapilly | 1,24,036 | 3,28,900 | 2,04,864 | | Ongole | 22,713 | 55,000 | 32,287 | | Palnaud | 25,634 | 47,802 | 22,168 | | Trichinopoly | 7,845 | 2,54,071 | 2,46,226 | | Madura | 39,046 | 48,253 | 9,207 | | Tinnevelly | 4,01,439 | 5,09,345 | 1,07,906 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+ | Total | 6,20,713 | 12,43,371 | 6,22,658 | +---------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
N.B. In this statement, Madras PaG.o.das are calculated at 10 per cent Batta; Chuckrums at two thirds of a Porto Novo PaG.o.da, which are reckoned at 115 per 100 Star PaG.o.das; and Rupees at 350 per 100 Star PaG.o.das. To avoid fractions, the nearest integral numbers have been taken.
Signed,
CHARLES OAKLEY, EYLES IRWIN, HALL PLUMER, DAVID HALIBURTON, GEORGE MOUBRAY.
FORT ST. GEORGE, 27th May, 1782.
No. 5.
Referred to from p. 73.
_Case of certain Persons renting the a.s.signed Lands wider the Authority of the East India Company._
Extract of a Letter from the President and Council of Fort St. George, 25th May, 1783.
One of them [the renters], Ram Chunder Raus, was, indeed, one of those unfortunate rajahs whose country, _by being near to the territories of the Nabob_, forfeited its t.i.tle to independence, and became the prey of ambition and cupidity. This man, though not able to resist the Company's arms, _employed in such a deed at the Nabob's instigation_, had industry and ability. He acquired, _by a series of services_, even the confidence of the Nabob, who suffered him to _rent apart of the country of which he had deprived him of the property_. This man had afforded no motive for his rejection by the Nabob, but that of being ready to engage with the Company: a motive most powerful, indeed, but not to be avowed.
[This is the person whom the English instruments of the Nabob of Arcot have had the audacity to charge with a corrupt transaction with Lord Macartney, and, in support of that charge, to produce a forged letter from his Lords.h.i.+p's steward. The charge and letter the reader may see in this Appendix, under the proper head. It is a.s.serted by the unfortunate prince above mentioned, that the Company first settled on the coast of Coromandel under the protection of one of his ancestors. If this be true, (and it is far from unlikely,) the world must judge of the return the descendant has met with. The case of another of the victims given up by the ministry, though not altogether so striking as the former, is worthy of attention. It is that of the renter of the Province of Nellore.]
It is, with a wantonness of falsehood, and indifference to detection, a.s.serted to you, in proof of the validity of the Nabob's objections, that this man's failures had already forced us to remove him: though in fact he has continued invariably in office; though our _greatest supplies have been received from him_; and that, in the disappointment of your remittances [the remittances from Bengal] and of other resources, the specie sent us _from Nellore alone_ has sometimes enabled us to carry on the public business; and that the _present expedition against the French_ must, without _this_ a.s.sistance from the a.s.signment, have been laid aside, or delayed until it might have become too late.
[This man is by the ministry given over to the mercy of persons capable of making charges on him ”_with a wantonness of falsehood, and indifference to detection_.” What is likely to happen to him and the rest of the victims may appear by the following.]
_Letter to the Governor-General and Council, March 13th, 1782._
The speedy termination, to which the people were taught to look, of the Company's interference in the revenues, and the vengeance denounced against those who, contrary to the mandate of the Durbar, should be connected with them, as reported by Mr. Sullivan, may, as much as the former exactions and oppressions of the Nabob in the revenue, as reported by the commander-in-chief, have deterred some of the fittest men from offering to be concerned in it.
The timid disposition of the Hindoo natives of this country was not likely to be insensible to the specimen of that vengeance given by his Excellency the Amir, who, upon the mere rumor, that a Bramin, of the name of Appagee Row, had given proposals to the Company for the renters.h.i.+p of Vellore, had the temerity to send for him, and to put him in confinement.
A man thus seized by the Nabob's sepoys within the walls of Madras gave a general alarm, and government found it necessary to promise the protection of the Company, in order to calm the apprehensions of the people.
No. 6.
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