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Excerpt from A Letter From Major Scott, to Philip Francis, Esq.
Now this I' affirm in the face of the whole world, and I fay that Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas have again and again declared the fact to be, that the natives of Bengal were happier under the Britiih adminifira tion than at any former period, and they as India Miniflers have annually prefented ac counts, which prove the increafe of the pub lic revenue by the meafures of Mr. Hafiin gs; the ground, therefore, of Mr. Burke has flipped from under him, the great and ma terial charges are totally falfe and without detracting from the confequence of that ar tiele (the contracts) which the prefent Houfe has in its wifdom alone adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
