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2 * carrying into effect the said Regulations and Ordinances according to the tenor of
3 “ the 4th Article, or for placing the Territories required under the exclusive autho-
4 “‘ rity and control of the English Company Bahadoor, and in case His Highness
5 * shall not issue such. orders within ten days from the tinte when the application
6 * shall have been formally made to him, then the said Governor General in Council
7 shall be at liberty to issue orders by his own authority, either for carrying into
8 * effect the said Regulations and Ordinances, or for assuming the management and
9 “¢ collection of the Revenues of the said Territories, as he shall judge most expedient,
10 -“ for the purpose of securing the efficiency of the said Military Fund, and of pro-
11 “viding for the effectual protection of the country and the welfare of the people.
12 “ Provided always that whenever and so long as any part, or parts, of His said
13 ‘<* Highness’ Territories shall be placed and shall remain under the exclusive autho-
14 “ rity and control of the East India Company, the Governor General in Council
15 “ shall render to His Highness a true and faithful account of the Revenues and
16 “produce of the Territories so assumed ; provided also, that in no cast whatever
17 *¢ shall His Highness’ actual receipt, or annual income arising out of his Territorial
18 Revenue, be less than one lakh of Star Pagodas, together with one-fifth of the
19 “ Net Revenue of ‘the whole of the Territories ceded to him by the 5th Article of
20 * the Treaty of Mysore, which sum of one lakh of Star Pagodas, together with the
21 amount of one-fifth of the said Net Revenues, the East India Company engages,
22 “ in all times and in every possible case, to secure and causé to be paid for His
23 *« Highness’ use.”
24 These stipulations were intended to provide for the specific evils which I have
25 described, and to the consequences, I lament to say, your Highness has made your-
26 ‘self justly liable. . ,
27 Moreover, from the time when your Highness assumed the management of the
28 affairs of Mysore, every symptom of mal-administration and misgovernment began
29 ‘to appear. The collection of the Revenues has failed through the choice of impro-
30 -per and incapable officers for the charge of Districts ; alienations have been made of
31 villages and public lands to a great extent, not in reward for public services, but to
32 favorites and companions of your Highness, so that the resources of the State have
33 been greatly diminished. As a means of raising funds for temporary purposes, to
34 the neglect of future prospects and of the good of the country, State offices of all
35 descriptions have been sold and privileges of exclusive trade, whereby the Ryots
36 and Subjects of the State were made over to needy and greedy adventurers, This
37 mismanagement and the tyranny and oppression that resulted came at length to
38 auch a pass, as to be no longer bearable by the inhabitants of the Territory of your
39 Highness: and for the past year, the half of your Highness’ entire dominions have
40 been in insurrection in consequence. The Troops of your Highness were first sent
41 to bring the insurgents to subjection, the greatest excesses were committed and un-
42 paralleled cruelties were inflicted by your Highness’ Officers ; but the insurrection
43 was not quelled. It became necessary to detach a part of the armies of the British
44 Govérnment to restore tranquillity and take part against the insurgents. Tranquil-
45 lity has for the present been restored, but the British Government cannot permit its