AN ACCOUNT of the Revenues and Charges of Bencoolen, Prince of Wales Island, and St. Helena, for Three Years, according to the latest Advices ;—with an Estimate of the same for the succeeding Year. GENERAL ABSTRACT VIEW of the actual Revenues and Charges of India, for Three Years, according to the latest Advices: with the Estimate of the same for the succeeding Estimate. Estimate. 1820-21. 5,403,506 5,557,129 5,585,210 Bombay 2,401,312 2,855,740 3,352,875 2,913,390 Bencoolen 8,183 8,177 6,691 7,549 Prince of Wales Island 52,022 41,660 44,076 39,750 1821-22. 1822-23. 1823-24. 1820-21. 1821-22. 1822-23. 1823-24. 1820-21. 1821-22. 1822-23. Total. 92,948* (b)65,832* (b)96,243* (b)76,181*| .£21,352,241 21,803,208 23,117,822 21,663,724|| 17,703,155 17,715,616 18,412,504 18,828,249 3,649,086 4,087,592 4,705,318 2,835,475 102,934 3,015,101| £ 88,957 (a) The figures without stars shew the net revenue; the figures with stars the net charge. (b) Exclusive of the expense of detachments, the same being charged in the Bengal account. (c) These sums include the charges incurred on account of his majesty's government, which were settled by the act of the 3d Geo. IV. c. 93. AN ACCOUNT of the Annual Charges defrayed by the East India Company for the Management of their Trade and Commerce in Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Bencoolen, and Prince of Wales Island; also an Account of the Factory Charges at Canton, for Three Years; according to the latest Advices;-with an Estimate of the same for the succeeding Year. • The alteration in these years, as compared with the former budget, is occasioned by subsequent adjustments. AN ACCOUNT of the Amount received at the several Presidencies of Fort William, Fort St. George, Bombay, and at Bencoolen and Prince of Wales Island, for Sales of Import Goods, for Three Years; according to the latest advices;-with an Estimate of the same for the succeeding Year. AN ACCOUNT of the PRIME COST of all CARGOES purchased by the East India Company in India, and shipped for Europe, for Three Years, according to the latest Advices. SUBSTANCE of the Twenty-first REPORT of the Commissioners appointed under an Agreement concluded on 10th July, 1805, between the East India Company and the Private Creditors of the late Nabobs of the Carnatic. The aggregate sterling amount of the claims, specified in the lists which have been presented, as nearly as could be calculated from the imperfect manner in which many of the claims were stated, was £ s. d. 30,216,707 11 4 ABSTRACT of the Amount of Adjudications to the date of the present Report : : 2,445,630 0 8 40,000 17 10 Aggregate of absolute adjudications in favour of parties £2,485,630 18 61 Aggregate of absolute adjudications against the parties, including the portions disallowed in claims favourably adjudicated 27,163,979 2 4 Total........ Balance of claims remaining for adjudication, when returns, containing the results of the investigations by the commissioners in India, shall be received, but exclusive of a number of small claims (exceeding 8,000) which the commissioners are making arrangements to relieve them from investigating.... £29,649,610 0 11 567,097 10 51 £30,216,707 11 4 Substance of the First REPORT of the Commis- | the examination, upon oath, of all parties resisioners appointed under an Agreement concluded on the 11th February, 1824, between the East India Company and the Private Creditors of his late Highness Ameer Sing, formerly Rajah of Tanjore. Aggregate amount of the claims preferred by parties who have executed the deed of agreement with the East India company... .Pagodas 2,90,718. 9f. 4c. The executors of the late Walter Grant, esq. have signed and executed the deed, but have not yet presented schedules of their claim. The commissioners state that they had despatched instructions to the commissioners in India; that they had subsequently completed dent in this country; that they had very nearly collected all the evidence relating to each claim, separately, that could be obtained here; and that they had since been occupied in reviewing the whole, and preparing instructions for the Madras commissioners to collect the remaining evidence necessary before final adjudication. Copy of a Letter from the Governor-General in Council to the Court of Directors, dated the 3d December, 1824, (Judicial Department) relative to Suttees, or the Burning of Hindoo Widows on the Funeral Piles of their Husbands. Honourable sirs, We have the honour to transmit to your |