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ſo much. The advantages of a ſure and great commerce, of 2 large tribute, of a dominion maintained by its own. reſources, have not been ſtaked, in following uncertain theories, which could only be tried at the riík of loſing what was poſſeſſed: and experience, as well as ſound reaſon, demonſtrates the wiſdom of this ſyſtem.
« Jf then, in reſped to fas, it be true, that the foreign trade of India, either carried on by our Enemies or by Neutral Nations, or clandeſtinely under their colours by our own ſubjets, is not progreſſively increaſing; that Nations in amity with us, and already trading to India, ought to be allowed to continue to trade on their own account, tor the ſupply of their own wants; and that India has no capital within itſelf, for effeÆing the great enlargements of its exports now propoſed: if it be alſo true, in reſpeâ of principles, that it would be impolitic in this coun- try to tranſplant any conſiderable portion of its capital to India, for extending the agriculture and manufaQures of that diſtant dependency, and yet more impolitic to open the way for Britiſh colonization there; the concluſion reſulting from the whole is, that the only obje& for which the Company, or the Nation, can now juſtly be called on to make new proviſions in favour of individuals, is that of bringing direély into this country the re- mainder of the trade yet carried on clandaeſtinely by Britiſh ſub- jes, with the removal of any inconveniences which now ob- ſtru the ready andeaſy tranſportation of the whole trade, which can be carried on by the fortunes of Britiſh refidents in India, direétly to the port London.
« Thoſe individuals, who thriving under the protedion of the Company ftill abet that clandeſtine trade, certainly a& neither worthily nor gratefully; nor do they entitle themſelves to new privileges. The Company, however, deſirous to ſecure to the Nation all the trade carried on from India by the capital of Bri- tiſh reſidents, are willing to adopt ſuch meaſures as depend on thèm, for bringing dire&ly to the Thames the merchandize which that capital yet convéys, in any form, to foreign ports; but as the comparative rates of duties payable at their ports and in our own, will always be regarded by the proprietors of Indian Goods in the di eGion of their conſignments, it ſeems requilite, in order to ſecure the obje& in queſtion, that the duties on the exports of goods from Ludia, or the duties on Indian goods im- ported into this country, undergo fill further modification.”
ON COAL MINES. Tc the Editor of the Commercial and Azricultural Magazine: SIR» Had inadvertently paſſed over a farther communication on Ï chis ſubjeét, by your correſpondent R. C. No XVII. page 434. With reſpec to the probabLity of ſuch an important na=