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Imported and Exported to and from Calicut and Tellicherry from

May, 1828, to April, 1829...

ART. IV. Statistical Tables of the Population and Agriculture of the
Ceded Districts of Madras -Communicated to Major T. B. Jer-
vis by the late Principal Collector, Mr Robertson...
ART. V. Statement shewing the works of Irrigation in the Bellary Divi-
sion of the Ceded Districts, the amount of Garden and Wet cul-
tivation under the same in Fusly 1235, and the actual sums dis-
bursed for Repairs since the Cession, or from Fusly 1210 to 31st
December, 1236....

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I.-Historical and Geographical Account of the Western Coast of India.-Revenue and Land Tenures.-By Major T. B. Jervis, of the Bombay Engineers, F. R. S.

"The love of things ancient doth argue staidness; but levity and want of experience maketh apt unto innovations. That which wisdom did first begin and hath been with good men long continued, challengeth allowance of them that succeed, although, it plead for itself nothing. That which is new, if it promise not much, doth fear condemnation before trial; until trial, no man doth acquit or trust it, what good soever it pretend and promise so that in this kind there are few things known to be good, till such time as they grow to be ancient." Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, vol. 2, page 27.

THE amount, collection, and appropriation of the Revenues of every state is as intimately connected with the individual welfare of the people, as the stability and improvement of the Government. The extent of happiness or misery attendant on an equitable system of finance, or the introduction and continuance of an injudicious or oppressive assessment, is rarely understood until it has been long in operation, and those effects which are referable to remote causes, but little appreciated, unless fraught with some immediate danger or distress, in which case it is frequently impracticable to trace the progress of any evil to its true source: hence it becomes obligatory to propose a remedy which has this singular disadvantage, that it has yet to be tried, and is therefore inexpedient and doubtful in proportion as the origin of the evil to be obviated is remote and uncertain.

The foregoing observation arises out of the consideration of Indian Revenue, which is either depreciated, or diminished, to an amount

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