A. D. 1782. 71 1 



■office by ;t1>olii]iing the piaclicc (^f drawing bills on the paper of tiic 

 letters, winch accomprmied them. 



June i<) " — Tobacco, the growth of the Britifli plantations, was per- 

 mitted to be imported during the continuance of the war, from any 

 port of America, the Weft-Indies, or Europe. [22 Gcc. Ill, c. 38. J 



Tn order to put a flop to the violence and outrages frequciitly com- 

 mitted by riotous and ill-difpofed perfons, the crime of entermg lioufts 

 or lliops, and cutting or deflroying woollen, fdk, cotton, or linen, 

 goods, or any tools or utenfils ufed in fpinning, preparing, or weaving, 

 fuch goods, was made felony without benclk of clergy. [22 Geo. Ill, 

 <•• 40.] 



Tickets for the lotteries elbiblilbed by the parliament of Ireland were 

 permitted to be fold in any part of Great Hritam, except the univcrfities 

 of Oxford and Cambridge, under the lame regulutions with rei'ped to 

 licences, fliares, &.c. which are enatled for conducling the bulinefs of the 

 Britilh flate lotteries. [22 do. III., c. 47.] 



The aflairs of the Eaft-Indiu company were now become almoft as 

 mucli the f«bje£t of parliamentary dilcullion as the national income and 

 expenditure. Mr. Henry Dundas, the lord advocate of Scotland, who 

 liad examined the aflairs ol" India with uncommon induftry and acute- 

 nefs, declared in the houfe of coir.mons, that ilie revenue of the pre- 

 fidency of Bombay fell Ihort of its civil and military inveftments 

 /^200,oco annually, which deliciency was made up by Bengal ; that the 

 revenue of the prelidency of Madras, though in the four years of peace 

 between 17C7 and 1779 it had exceeded nearly one half as much as the 

 expenfes, had not been equal to the civil and military invellments 

 during the eight years of war; and that even in Bengal, the mofl fertile 

 and lucrative of the Britilli i)()ili;irions in India, tlie expenles of the war 

 with the Mahrattas threatened a partial, if not a total, fufpenfion of the 

 inveflments for England. He condemn-ed the thirll for conquefts and 

 frantic military exploits, too often difplayed by our governors in India, 

 who, he laid, inftead of acting as the faithful ilewards of a commercial 

 comp.any, were too apt to fancy themfelves Alexanders or Aurengezebes, 

 and he hinted the propriety of placing the management of the territor- 

 ial polIMTions under the diredlion of the crown. The iioufc of com- 

 mons afterwards refnlved, ' that the orders of the court of directors of 

 ' the Eaft-India company, which have conveyed to their fervants abroad 

 ' a prohibitory condemnation of all fehemes of conqucfl and cnlarge- 

 ' ment of dominion, by prefcribing certain rules and boundaries for the 

 ' operation of their militRrv force, and enjoining a (IricI adherence to .1 

 ' fyllem of defence upon the principles of the treaty of Ulahabad, were 

 ' founded no Icfs in wifdom and policy, th:m in julbee and moderation -,' 

 and that the many dtvialions from thole orders, and the unnccelFary 

 interferences m the alYairs ol the native princes had been produdivc of 



