[Footnote 76: 30th March, 1772.] [Footnote 77: Letter of Directors, 1st June, 1764.] [Footnote 78: This tax was not on the real value, but on a reduced estimate: and paid before it was carried into the country.] [Footnote 79: Had the plan been allowed to proceed, the renunciation of trade would have been compulsory.] [Footnote 80: 14th December, 1765.] [Footnote 81: Dated 23d November, 1765.] [Footnote 82: Letter to Select Committee of Bengal, 17th May, 1766. Fourth Report of Secret Committee, App. No. 45.] [Footnote 83: 17th May, 1766.] [Footnote 84: See Fourth Report of Select Committee of the House of Commons, App. No. 58.] [Footnote 85: Fourth Report of Select Committee, App. No. 61.] [Footnote 86: 15th December, 1769.] [Footnote 87: Dated 28th August, 1767. Fourth Report of Select Committee, App. No. 59.] [Footnote 88: Letter dated Bath, 14th November, 1767.] [Footnote 89: See Clive's speech, 30th March, 1772, which contains an unanswerable defence of his conduct.] [Footnote 90: See Verelst's View, p. 84.; App. p. 239.; and Sir James Steuart's Principles of Money applied to the present State of the Coin of Bengal, Works, vol. v.] [Footnote 91: 11th July, 1765.] [Footnote 92: 3d August, 1765.] [Footnote 93: 12th August, 1765.] [Footnote 94: Letter to Court of Directors, 30th September, 1765.] [Footnote 95: The illustrious, the chosen of the kingdom, arranger of the state, firm in war.] [Footnote 96: The few pages that follow, enclosed between brackets, contain the last fragment of the Memoir written by Sir John Malcolm.] [Footnote 97: Dated Calcutta, 25th September, 1765.] [Footnote 98: Calcutta, 29th September, 1765.] [Footnote 99: Letter to Harry Clive, Esq., dated Calcutta, 25th September, 1765.] [Footnote 100: 24th September, 1765.] [Footnote 101: Vide note on p. 129.] [Footnote 102: Mootejyl, 19th April, 1766.] [Footnote 103: Mootejyl, 25th April, 1766.] [Footnote 104: Letter to Mr. Blomer, Dinagepore, 22d September, 1766.] [Footnote 105: There can be little doubt that the ryot was in Bengal, as in other parts of India, in reality a proprietor of the land: a circumstance which afterwards, in making the permanent settlement, on English or Mussulman ideas, was unfortunately overlooked. See Colonel Briggs's valuable and too little known work, on the Land Tax in India. Lond. 1830. 8vo.] [Footnote 106: Letter, 29th December, 1765.] [Footnote 107: 8th July, 1765.] [Footnote 108: 10th August, 1765.] [Footnote 109: 28th August, 1767.] [Footnote 110: Letter to Colonel Smith, 23d August, 1765.] [Footnote 111: 21st May, 1766.]