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 strangers 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 visited by the officers of the government, who extorted, under various pretences, frequent contributions, over and above the duties, for their own or their 'masters' emolument. In Bengal, particularly, traders could. by no means escape paying whatever was demanded from them, ‘because their ‘settlements 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 such a circumference, and of courfe the fratlfe of the fettlements in Bengal was loaded with grievous taites and impositions. ‘ Our East: India Company continued a great number of years under this disadvantage.