THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

June 25, 1783.




NINTH REPORT

From the SELECT COMMITTEE [of the House of Commons] 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 promoted.


I.--OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE COMPANY'S AFFAIRS IN INDIA.


In order to enable the House to adopt the most proper means for
regulating the British government in India, and for promoting the
happiness of the natives who live under its authority or influence, your
Committee hold it expedient to collect into distinct points of view the
circumstances by which that government appears to them to be most
essentially disordered, and to explain fully the principles of policy