GROSS REVENUE.EXPENSES.NET REVENUE.
Annual Gross Rent by the Nabob's Account.
Average of the Four Years immediately preceding the present War.		Annual Rent by the present Leases, at an Average of Four Years.Annual Expenses by the Nabob's Accounts.Annual Expenses allowed by the present Leases at an Estimate.Reduction in the Annual Expenses.Net Revenue by the Nabob's Accounts.Net Revenue by the present Leases.Increase of Net Revenue.
Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.Star Pagodas.
Nellore and Sarapilly3,22,8303,61,9001,98,79433,0001,65,7941,24,0363,28,9002,04,864
Ongole1,10,967[68]55,00088,254...88,25422,71355,00032,287
Palnaud51,35553,50025,7215,69820,02325,63447,80222,168
Trichinopoly2,89,993[69]2,73,2142,82,14813,1432,63,0057,8452,54,0712,46,226
Madura1,02,75660,29063,71012,03751,67339,04648,2539,207
Tinnevelly5,65,5375,79,7131,64,09870,36893,7304,01,4395,09,3451,07,906
Total14,43,43813,83,6178,22,7251,40,2466,82,4796,20,71312,43,3716,22,658

N.B. In this statement, Madras Pagodas are calculated at 10 per cent Batta; Chuckrums at two thirds of a Porto Novo Pagoda, which are reckoned at 115 per 100 Star Pagodas; and Rupees at 350 per 100 Star Pagodas. 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 Assigned 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 title 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 Lordship's steward. The charge and letter the reader may see in this Appendix, under the proper head. It is asserted 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, asserted 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 assistance from the assignment, 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.]