[1] See the Secret Committee's Reports on the Mahratta War.
[2] Vide Secret Committee Reports.
[3] Vide Select Committee Reports, 1781
[4] The sale, to the amount of about one hundred thousand pounds annually, of the export from Great Britain ought to be deducted from this million.
[5] Estimate of the Sale Amount and Net Proceeds in England of the Cargoes to be sent from Bengal, agreeable to the Plan received by Letter dated the 8th April, 1782.
This calculation supposes the eighty lac investments will be equal to the tonnage of five ships.
| [B]2. | To custom | £320,000 | [A]1. | By sale amount of piece-goods and raw silk | £1,300,000 |
| [C]3. | " freight | 200,000 | |||
| [D]4. | " 5 per cent duty on £1,300,000 | 65,000 | Discount 6½ per cent allowed the buyers | 84,500 | |
| [E]5. | " 2 do. warehouse room do. | 26,000 | |||
| 7 do. commission on £604,500 | 42,315 | ||||
| £653,315 | |||||
| [F]6. | " Balance | 562,185 | |||
| £1,215,500 | £1,215,500 |
[A] 1. The sale amount is computed on an average of the sales of the two last years' imports.
[B] 2. The custom is computed on an average of what was paid on piece-goods and raw silk of said imports, adding additional imposts.
[C] 3. The ships going out of this season, (1782,) by which the above investment is expected to be sent home, are taken up at 47l. 5s. per ton, for the homeward cargo; this charge amounts to 35,815l. each ship; the additional wages to the men, which the Company pay, and a very small charge for demurrage, will increase the freight, &c., to 40,000l. per ship, agreeable to above estimate.