[69] The Trichinopoly countries let for the above sum, exclusive of the expenses of sibbendy and saderwared, amounting, by the Nabob’s accounts, to rupees 1,30,00 per annum, which are to be defrayed by the renter.  And the jaghires of Amir-ul-Omrah and the Begum are not included in the present lease.

[70] For the ground of this “great reliance,” see the papers in this Appendix, No. 5; as also the Nabob’s letters to the Court of Directors in this Appendix, No. 10.

[71] For the full proof of this necessity, Lord Macartney’s whole correspondence on the subject may be referred to.  Without the act here condemned, not one of the acts commended in the preceding paragraph could be performed.  By referring to the Nabob’s letters in this Appendix it will be seen what sort of task a governor has on his hands, who is to use, according to the direction of this letter, “acts of address, civility, and conciliation,” and to pay, upon all occasions, the highest attention, to persons who at the very time are falsely, and in the grossest terms, accusing him of peculation, corruption, treason, and every species of malversation in office.  The recommendation, under menaces of such behavior, and under such circumstances, conveys a lesson the tendency of which cannot be misunderstood.

[72] The delicacy here recommended, in the expressions concerning conduct “with which the safety of our settlements is essentially connected,” is a lesson of the same nature with the former.  Dangerous designs, if truly such, ought to be expressed according to their nature and qualities.  And as for the secrecy recommended concerning the designs here alluded to, nothing can be more absurd; as they appear very fully and directly in the papers published by the authority of the Court of Directors in 1775, and may be easily discerned from the propositions for the Bengal treaty, published in the Reports of the Committee of Secrecy, and in the Reports of the Select Committee.  The keeping of such secrets too long has been one cause of the Carnatic war, and of the ruin of our affairs in India.

[73] See Tellinga letter, at the end of this correspondence.

[74] The above-recited practices, or practices similar to them, have prevailed in almost every part of the miserable countries on the coast of Coromandel for near twenty years past.  That they prevailed as strongly and generally as they could prevail, under the administration of the Nabob, there can be no question, notwithstanding the assertion in the beginning of the above petition; nor will it ever be otherwise, whilst affairs are conducted upon the principles which influence the present system.  Whether the particulars here asserted are true or false neither the Court of Directors nor their ministry have thought proper to inquire.  If they are true, in order to bring them to affect Lord Macartney, it ought to be proved that the complaint was made to him, and that he