[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 47_l._ 5_s._ per ton, for the homeward cargo; this charge amounts to 35,815_l._ 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 40,000_l._ per ship, agreeable to above estimate. [D] 4. The duty of five per cent is charged by the Company on the gross sale amount of all private trade licensed to be brought from India: the amount of this duty is the only benefit the Company are likely to receive from the subscription investment. [E] 5. This charge is likewise made on private trade goods, and is little, if anything, more than the real expense the Company are at on account of the same; therefore no benefit will probably arise to the Company from it on the sale of the said investment. [F] 6. This is the sum which will probably be realized in England, and is only equal to 1_s._ 6_d._ per rupee, on the eighty lacs subscribed. [6] Vide Mr. Francis's plan in Appendix, No. 14, to the Select Committee's Sixth Report. [7] The whole sum has not been actually raised; but the deficiency is not very considerable. [8] Fourth Report, page 106. [9] Par. 36. Vide Fourth Report from Com. of Secrecy in 1773, Appendix, No. 45. [10] Vide Sel. Letter to Bengal, 17 May, 1766, Par. 36, in Fourth Report from Com. of Secrecy, in 1773, Appendix, No. 45. [11] Ibid. Par. 37. [12] Vide Committee's Fifth Report, page 21, and Appendix to that Report, No. 12. [13] 1st and 5th April, 1779. ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE APPENDIX. November 18, 1783. ELEVENTH REPORT From the SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to take into consideration the state of the administration of justice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, and to report the same, as it shall appear to them, to the House, with their observations thereupon; and who were instructed to consider how the British possessions in the East Indies may be held and governed with the greatest security and advantage to this country, and by what means the happiness of the native inhabitants may be best protected. Your Committee, in the course of their inquiry into the obedience yielded by the Company's Servants to the orders of the Court of Directors, (the authority of which orders had been strengthened by the Regulating Act of 1773,) could not overlook one of the most essential objects of that act and of those orders, namely, _the taking of gifts and presents_. These pretended free gifts from the natives to the Company's servants in power had never been authorized by law; they are contrary to the covenants formerly entered into by the President and Council, they are strictly forbidden by the act of Parliament, and forbidden upon grounds of the most substantial policy.