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From the materials and information we have hitherto been able to ob- 

 tain, we do not deem ourselves competent to give a definitive opinion, but 

 as we conceive, allowing in general that the introduction of a new manu- 

 factory into any district must be beneficial to the public as well as to 

 individuals, that the greatest difficulty Messrs. Motte and Farquhar will 

 have to struggle with, will arise from the Jaghiredars and other landhold- 

 ers in Jerriah. We would therefore recommend to those gentlemen to 

 make themselves acquainted with the difficulties which we apprehend, and 

 to endeavour to obviate them, before they commence their manufactory, 

 by reconciling the landholders and other inhabitants of the several 

 districts in which they propose to be engaged. 



Burdwan, the 13th March, 1778. 



Report of Seebnarain to Mr. Hewett, referred to in the above. 



Five days before my arrival, Rajah Mohunt Sing, with all his family 

 and servants of every denomination, had gone into the jungles ; not one 

 of them attended me. I sent the perwanna you gave me for the Rajah 

 by the hand of one of his people to him ; upon reading the perwanna, he 

 said that he was willing to furnish the articles of merchandize, (to wit 

 iron,) but that he could not produce the Jaghiredars : that he would give 

 his assistance in every thing which was required of him. This message he 

 sent by one of his own people. If the Jaghiredars abscond, how is it possi- 

 ble for me to send you the accounts you require ? You will be informed 

 of every thing by the Moonshee, that not a cowree of money has been 

 received upon account of the three Turoffs up to the month of Maug. 

 The people are, through rascality, wandering up and down the country. 

 Munsab Kell, &c. who went to Burdwan, have been arrived here three days. 

 The Zemindars and all the people are pleased with the proposals for manu- 

 facturing the iron. 



A more interesting report was sent in by Mr. Ramus, the Collector of 

 Ramghur. This gentleman, at his entrance into the service, had been 

 placed as assistant to Mr. Heatly in these districts. He was well 

 known to his contemporaries as a devoted sportsman. 



The Collector of Ramghur to Government. 



Hon'ble Sir and Sirs, — I have been honoured with your letter of the 

 6th instant, enclosing a copy of the proposals from Messrs. Motte and 

 Farquhar, for casting the Hon'ble Company's shot and shells in Bengal, and 



