Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Vol. 8 The government is considered by your Committee under the like descriptions of internal and external. The internal regards the communication between the Court Of Directors and their servants in India, the management of the revenue, the expenditure of pub lic money, the civil administration, the administra tion of justice, and the state Of the army. The ex ternal regards, first, the conduct and maxims of the Company's government with respect to the native princes and people dependent on the British au thority, - and, next, the proceedings with regard to those native powers which are wholly independent of the Company. But your Committee's observa tions on the last division extend to those matters Only which are not comprehended in the Report of the Committee of Secrecy. Under these heads, your Committee refer to the most leading particulars of abuse which prevail in the administration Of India, deviating only from this order where the abuses are of a complicated nature, and where One cannot be Well considered independently Of several others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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