32 A. D.I 78 J. 



The territorial revenues of Bengal, Bahar, and Orifla, pro- 

 duce, fubjed to charges of management, annually about 1,838,000 

 Subfiy paid by the nabob of Oude, and tribute from Ben- 

 ares _ ._ _ 962,000 

 Revenue from fait in Bengal - - 450,000 

 Revenue from cufloms in India, about - - 236,367 

 Subfidy paid by the rajah of Tanjore, about - 160,000 

 Ditto by the nabob of Arcot, about - - 200,000 



>C5.o77'367 



But Mr. Fox controverted fo many articles of the account, that he 

 ftated, injlead of a favourable balance of near four millions, a deficiency of 

 above nine iiiilUons, upon the fuppofition that the company were to go on 

 in their bufinefs ; as fome of the articles, for example the houfes and 

 buildings, could not be brought to account, unlefs the company were to 

 be difTolved, and all property of every defcription to be fold off. To 

 this great deficiency he moreover added /!^3,20o,ooo, the amount of the 

 company's capital ftock ; which mufl furely in any way of reckoning 

 be allowed to be a part of their joint property, and by no means a debt 

 upon them, to be deduiSed from it. 



The fupporters of the bills expatiated in parliament upon the cruelty 

 and treachery of the fervants of the company to the Indian fovereigns, 

 from the Great mogul down to the zemindars and other petty princes. 

 They obferved, that the former conquerors of India had fettled them- 

 felves in the country, and made fome amends for the defolations attend- 

 ing their invafions by their fubfequent attention to the arts of peace 

 and the v*"orks of magnificence. But they afferted, that our conquefts 

 there, after a poflellion of twenty years, were in as crude a ftate as on 

 the firft day. None of the company's fervants went to India with an 

 intention of remaining there : none of them cultivated any fociety with 

 the natives, or fhowed any fympathy for them. The many millions of 

 polilhed, induflrious, and ingenious, agricultors and manufadurers, to- 

 gether with the opulent merchants, and even the princes of the country, 

 were fubjeded to the dominion of a rapid fucceflion of young men, 

 new fwarms of whom were continually pouring in, like migratory birds 

 of prey, upon the devoted country, who, uniting the avarice of age 

 with the impetuofity of youth, difregarded every confideration but the 

 rapid accumulation of enormous fortunes, and were continually carry- 

 ing off from the country as much wealth, as a fpirit of rapacity, uncon- 

 trolled by confcience, could amafs *. Neither did the commercial con- 



* To this unfavourable reprefcatation of the Major Rennell, who has the advantage of fpeak- 

 opprefil'J !t;te of India it will not be improper to ing from his own knowlcge. He fays, ' The 

 opnofe the account oT the ftate of Bengal, &c. by ' Bengal provinces, which have been in our aftual 



' poffcffioa 



