Excerpt from Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the Honourable House of Commons: Appointed for the Purpose of Taking the Examination of Such Witnesses as Be Ordered by the House to Attend the Committee of the Whole House, on the Affairs of the East-India Company, and to Report the Minutes of Such Evidence From Time to Time The fixed and grand source of this state's revenue, is Agriculture; the best, perhaps, on which a nation can depend: that it has suth a re venue, is the necessary consequence of possessing an immense tract of productive domain that it is not more productive, but on the contrary, that it labours under every disadvantage, proceeds from a faulty consti turion: the second is, its Tribute, fixed by various denominations on the greatest part of Hindustan the third, the predatory collections of its armies: the fourth, its domestic sequestrations; and the last, its col lections on the commerce of the empire which I am inclined to think are comparatively trifling and insignificant. 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.