On Eafſt-India Trâde.[June

before the Engliſh acquired territory; which brings them(8)

to 2 ſtatement of the

ABSTRACT ACcCcoUNT, to ſhew the Amount of the Private and Foreign Trade in each of che above Years.

IMPoRTs. ExPoirTs. London. FUSER Total. London. ES Total. 1795-6 Lacks, 22 33 55, 84 66 I50 17007= 0 20 44 50 S7 108- 1707S 3== 5 20 35 69 38 108 1798-9-- 24 4 41 23 64

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Theſe fads, they ſay, difprove the aſſertion, that the foreign trade is increafing.(9) They proceed to enquire into the dif- ferent articles of trade, and(10 and 11) to the influence the increaſing the trade in theſe various articles would have, and then proceed(12, IZ, and 14) to their reaſoning on the fore- going premiſes, which being a full explanation of the political ſyſtem now purſued, we ſhall give much at large, reſerving“ an abridgment of the remainder of this intereſting report for our Next.

« But your Committee muſt believe, that the propoſed enlarge- ments would involve a conſeguence fill more ſerious, on which they have already touched, in conſidering the claim of Britiſh ſubjeds to a like freedom with Foreigners in the Indian trade, This claim is, in other words, the preſent queſtion. If, inſtead of carrying on the intercourſe, commercial and political, of this country and its Indian dependencies through one great channel, the Eaſt-India Company, which has ſo much contributed to pre- ſerve a váſt people in their original habits of ſubmiſſion, the hips of Britiſh individuals were permitted to go and come at pleaſure, a great change in the political circumſtances of Bri- tiſh India muſt, from the nature of things, be expeded. Hitherto the want of an unexpenfive legal channel to India,(and the difficulties of getting into empioyment in our dominions for Na- tive Goyernments invite only deſperate military adventurers) have prevented a great influx of Britiſh ſubje&s into them, through foreign ſhips have been open to thoſe who could afford to pay them, 1nd our Governments have choſen rather to licenſe perions who had found means to ſettle themſelves there, than to force them from all their concerns. But the propoſed ſyſtem would, at once, confer both rightand-employment on multitudes 5 and it is from an inſtitution communicating theſe encourage- ments, that, in the opinion of your Committee, danger is to be The refidence of a limited number of Europeans

apprehended. hings at preſent are, is not a ground of any

in our provinces, as t