The History of British India

Macpherson—State of the Government in India internal and external— Board of Control pays without Inquiry the Debts of the Nabob of Arcot—Orders the Assignment of the Carnatic Revenues to be givz up—Asorbs the Power of the Directors—Lord Corwallis appointed Governor-General—Commencment of the Proceedings in Parliament relative to the Impeachment of Mr. [...] The following is a passage of the memorial ; " The object of this commission was to procure relief from the oppressions under which the Nabob was labouring : To procure this wished-for relief the means to be employed were if possible to raise in the breast of the Prime Mnister a favourable respect for the Nabob ; then to lay before him the distress of the Prince ; likewise to show the advant [...] Beside the general project of relieving the Nabob from oppression that is from the necessity of paying nis debts and of yielding any thing from the revenues of the country toward its defence the memorialist claims the merit of having exerted himself in favour of two other favourite designs of the Nabob ; that of usurping the seat of the Subah of Deccan and that of disinheriing his elder in [...] Whilst he continues under the protection of the Vizir and the Company the usurpation of the Mahrattas must be incomplete; but if he should fall under their power it will be perptuated and the consequences of their being permnently established in the authority of the empire would be truly alarming to the peace of the Vizir's and the Company's dominions." The Major added " It will not [...] If the resources of the Carnatic were snatched from the necessities of the Madras government he believed that the want might be supplied by the su1 rc J considered the assignment as the rock of your strength in the Carnatic and therefore had guarded it with vigilance against the assaultt of the Durbar and the menaces of Bengal.