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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30.

\1 r: have in India an ingenious sapping proems,
by which in progress of time, we make sine that the
dominions of our dearest native friends and heartiest
allies will fall into our hands. We first overwhelm
them with pecuniary obligations; and, if for the dis-
charge of those debts they give the financial screw a
turn, wo stigmatise them 23 oppressors; or, failing
to do so, we proceed against them as bankrupts. Of
this insidious system we have inst given one notable
example in the ease of the Nizam of the 1/Eccis.
There is another instance at hand in the affairs of
the Nabob-Vizier, now, in the decrepitude of his
power, called the King of Onix.
In 1773 the then reigning Prince of OrDE agreed
to pay. the Kist India Company at the rate of 23
hes of rupees, or 2:10,000/. a year, for the services,
when required, of one brigade of British troops. In
1;73 the subsidy was raised to :11 lees. or :1t0,009/..;
in 17$1, one regiment of sepoys having been added
to the force, it was further increased to 319,00tI1.;
and in that year WAttai:x ItAwrisus drew the fol-
lowing picture of the expenditure of the Nabob's

Cuurt'
Ilse number, inflamer, soil enormous amount of the sa-
laries, pensions, ant em,durnents of the Company's Servanb,
Cis ii and Mint try, in the Vizier's service have become an
While:able hurtle ii on the revenue and authority of his Hz-
eelhvey, and exposed ui to the cony and rem ntnient of the
whole country, by exeluding the native servants and ad-
r, nes of the Vizier from the rewards of their services and

tt.mtunests.
Upon the accession of Lord CORNWALLIA to the
government of India in 1706 the Nabob entreated
the noble lord to relieve hint from a portion of this
burden, whielt was pressing him to death. Lord
Couswsta.ts's answer to this remonstrance was a
demand that he should maintain two additional re-
giments of our troops, and pay an inereass of his
subsidy from 310;001 to 3filooot. a year, although
(hr Nabob tendered proof that, during the nine pre-
ceding years, he had really paid the eompany at the
rate of 141 hues of rupees, or SWAMI. per annum, he
being, es we have seen, only horrid by treaty to pay'
fruit, 1773 to 17041, 31 lass, and from 1701 to 1707
only 31 lace. In 1797 Lord 'fr.ifix norm saddled
two more regiments upon hint, and raised the sub-
sidy from 50 to 331. lacs. Next year a further aug-
mentation war made to the force, and his payment
was carried up to 71i Wes, exclusive of 12 lass he was
compelled to pay us compensation for the expense of
placing him upon the throne.
By the treaty of 17047. his subsidy was mole liable
to augmentation or diminution, not in proportion to
hi- means, of payment, but in proportion to the lures
which the Cumpany, might think proper to maintain
in his territories. Under this stipulation, the subsidy
hu.l beefs increased in. ten years from 30 to 76 Lacs of
rupees; and in 1799, Lord WELLE,LEY gave the last
torn to the screw by sending an extra force into
Oude, which entailed upon its finances an additional
lourthen of art lows. so that, beginning with a
demand fur 23 Des or 230,001 K, we, in lust than
thirty years, steadily advanced our claims until they
h ad malted the enormous sum of 1 crone and 30 lass
of rulers., or I,3mktfoof., or 'mire than a moiety of
the Vizieses whole revenues, exclusive too of the
cession of the valuable province of Moores.
And now for the conclusion of this sapping pro-
eess. In 114411, lard WELLE,LEV, under a threat
ref seizing the whole of the Naholis dominions, unless
lo• would consent to a surrender of a portion of
them, caereed him into a cession of a territory of the
annual value, not of the ordinary feasibly, but of all
the additions which his lordsli'p had made to it—
salitiona made in the face of an acknowledgment,
that tlw original demand wan such as it would be
extremely difficult for the Nabob to fulfil. The
plea for this extortiim was that the funds required
for ally amount of force which it might please the
British government to station in the Oude dominions,
should he always forthcoming. It was in vain the
unfortunate Prince protested in this language :
Since 1 have n. 4 in any way delayed or neglectod to dia.
eli.orge the ravens" of the troops, but have paid them with
punetudoty, • firm i* the occasion of requiring this territory ?
The fiat haul, however, gone forth, and in the midst
of ps ae. and in the faithful fulfilment of his engage-
no ono, our ally was stripped of oe-half his kingdom.
From the year 1773, when we slid in the tine edge
of the wedge, until 1001, when we drove it home, the
sapping provers was in silent operation. The result,
as we have seen, was the compulsory surrender to
the Company of the most valuable portion of the
Nabob-Viruses dominions. From 1,011 to 1013,
scarcely a year wherein wo did not
threaten hint with seizure of the re-
mainder, mitre, us usual, the pretence of his
ini,loveriament. But in the hatter year a change
tame over U./. The Nabob Iffs trier ALI had
died, leaving a well ordered territory, producing an
annual revenue of two millions sterling; and, what
was much more to our purpose, a sum in hard cash
of the saute amount. War lad just broken out with
the Nispiulese; our t reasury.s as empty ; and money
at Calcutta was not to Ire raised under 12 per cent.
But the treasury of our neighbour was full. So we
coolly put our hands into it, drew out the two
millions, gave the Nabob in return a barren, unin-
habitable district, and the high sounding title of
King of Outer_
At the commencement of this system of exaction
the Direetora of the East India l'ompany betrayal
some qualms of conscience. " If," they then said to
their servants in India," if you intend to exert your
influence, first to induce the Vizier to acquiesce in
your proposal (to increase the troops and the subsidy)
and attei wards to keep the troops in his pay during
your pleasure, your intentions are unjust, and such
eonduet will be discreditable to the Company." But
Mow qualms did nut last lung. In 1796 the libectors
themselves ordered the two regiments of cavalry in
Oude to be increased to four; and in 1799 they ex-
pressed their satisfaction that exclusive of the im-
mediate payment of 12 Lacs of rupees by the Nabob-
Vizier his annual subsidy is increased upwards
of 20 lees of rupees." lklure his connexion
with the English began, the revenues of Oude had
exceeded three millions eterliug, easily levied; in
1779 it did not reach half that sum. 'Yet the sum
dentandisi by the British government in that year
fur subside, &c., exceeded considerably two millions
and a hale sterling, ur twice the net revenue. Who
can wonder that the country should have exhibited
every mark of " oppression and exaction ?"
But, nut content with these direct attacks on his
Exchequer, the Company deeply damaged the Nabob's
revenue by insisting upon the exemption of their
trade from all customs duties, and by drawing specie
to Calcutta. From 17143 to 1794, upwards of two
millions sterling of specie had been drawn from
Oude, exclusive of what was sent down to answer
the bills issued for the payment of the troops, and
on private account. And these the directors acknow-
ledged were amongst the foremost causes, which, as
they said, had brought the country to tho brink of ,
ruin.
During the whole time we were thus picking his
pocket. we never ceased to abuse the Nabob for the
dilapidation of his finances, and to stigmatise him
for the oppression of his people. " It is well known,"
wrote Lord CORNWALLIS to the Nabob after he
had just fastened an additional subsidy upon
the unfortunate Prince, " not only throughout Hin-
dostan, but to all Europe, that the revenues
of your Excellency's dominions are diminishing be-
yond measure. Does not this consideration alarm
your Excellency? Can anything but ruin result
from such circumstances? What must be the situa-
tion of your Bytom? Tour Excellency knows that
'the prayers of the oppressed are attended to by the
Almighty, and often call down His vengeance
upon their oppreams." Surely this was adding
bWtplumy and mockery to woe. " I was pleased
• said fiishop LIEBER subsequently
after that nobleman bad borrowed
- from the Nabob—" after all
of Olds, to find the
eaun-
tudsr the plough ; since, were

Upon lnclc evialmms
blasphemy. and mocks
and surwusd, said
to Lord 011, afte
the last two millions
which I had heard
try accompletsly and