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Being asked, Whether he thinks those complaints were well founded? he says, He thinks the Rajah of Tanjore was not only not in a state of ability to pay the deposit-money, but that the annual payment of four lacs of pagodas was more than his revenues could afford.
It was a lucky thing for us that we got a kind of hint to draw in our horns in time." "And pray, since the concern is wound up, as you say, how much of our deposit-money will be returned?" "You don't mean to say," said Cutts, with singularly elaborate articulation "You don't mean to say that you were such an inconceivable ass as to pay up your letter of allotment?
Being asked, Whether he was not authorized and required by the Presidency at Madras to demand a large sum of money over and above the four lacs of pagodas that were to be annually paid by a grant of the Rajah, made in the time of Lord Pigot? he said, He was: to the amount, he believes, of four lacs of pagodas, commonly known by the name of deposit-money.
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