ii8 A. D. 1786. 



the arrival at Dunkirk of a colony of New-England whalers from Nan- 

 tucket with their families in fourteen veflels. 



The flate of Pennfylvania fet the example of a more liberal, and at 

 the fame time more prudent, commercial policy than that of their 

 northern brethren in Bofton, by repealing the laws, enaded by a fpirit 

 of animofity, which impofed extra charges upon the fhipping belong- 

 ing to Britifh fubjeds : and it was declared, that veflels of all countries 

 fliould be admitted, upon equal terms with thofe of the United flates^ 

 in the port of Philadelphia. 



The following was the amount of the revenue of the Eafl-India com^ 

 pany in India in the year 1786, as given by Major RennelL 



Land revenue of Bengal and Bahar ^2,800,000 



Revenue of Benares, clear - - 380,000- 



Subsidy from Oude, - - 420,000 



Customs, mint, &c. clear of charges - 120,000 



Salt revenue, ditto - 430,000 



Opium - - - 6o,000> 



Charges of collection, nabob's stipend, Sec. 740,000 

 Military charges of the company and the 



nabob - - - 1,410,000 



Civil establishment, marine, and fortifications 3go,000 



Land revenue of Madras and northern circars 7^5,000 



Subsidy from the Carnatie - - l6o,000 



Ditto from Tanjore - - 1^0,000 



Customs, &c. - - 25,000 



4,210,000? 



2,540,000 



1,670,000' 



Military charges of the company and the 



nabob • - - 770,000 



Collection of the revenue - - 85,000 



Civil establishment, fortifications, &c. - 130,000 



1,070,000 



985,000 



85,00O' 



Total net revenue of Bengal and Madras - - 1,755,000- 



At Bombay the disbursements exceed the receipts, by about 300,000 

 At Bencoolen (in Sumatra) the annual charges are about 50,000 



350,000' 



Total net revenue in India, in sterling money - - ^1,405,000 



The company's military eftablifhment in India in time of peace is 

 about 10,000 Europeans, and 52,000 regular fepoy infantry *. 



The accommodations granted this year by parliament to the Eafl- 



* See Major Rennell's Memoir of a map of H'mdoojlan, p. cxiv. 



