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A Narrative of the country were permitted to buy and fell, upon condition of paying the fame duties to the .government, that Armenians and other itrangers had’ paid before.A Narrative means is a telling of some true or fictitious event or connected sequence of events. Their (hips and ware houses were ‘liable to be vifited by the oificers of the government, who extorted, under various pretences, frequent contributions, over and above the duties, for their own or their 'mafters' emolument. In Bengal, particularly, traders could. by no means escape paying whatever was demanded from them, ‘because their ‘fettlements were established above a hundred miles up the Hoogly river, with several forts belonging to the government below them, of that their {hips could not withdraw without leave.
The disposition of the people of that country will naturally lead them to make the utmost advantage of fuch a circumfiance, and of courfe the fratlfe of the fettlements in Bengal was loaded with grievous taites and impofitions. ‘ Our Eafl: India Company continued a great number of years undeljthis difadvantage.