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East-lsofi Company—China Question. J. Ilatchard and Son. We have frequently bad occasion to express our opinion, that much delusion existed as to the advantage which will result, to the general interests of the country, by what is termed opening the China trade. It cannot be denied, that deductions, from what appear general truths in Political Economy, are a little at variance with the theory of ex clusive trading charters; but we hesitate not to say, that I the wonderful fabric of our Eastern Empire could never have been deduced as the probable product of any truth its what is termed Political Economy. And the question is, whether that which has been practically raised without re ference to that science is to be destroyed in acquiescencl. with its theoretical principles. The pamphlet before us is a masterly exposure of some of the misrepresentations which are current among the antagonists to the East India Com pany ; and we think it our duty to lay a copious abstract of it before our readers. It is in a letter to Earl Grey. In the last number of the " Edinburgh Review," No. CIV. there it an article entitled " Reports from, and Minutes of Evidence taken before, the Select Committe e s of th e Houses of Lords and Commons. on the Affairs of the East India Company." Knowing as I do, that this Review is a favourite publication with the party of which your lordship is the head, and which is considered to be an organ for the communication of the sentiments of that party ; feeling also, as I must In common with men of all classes, that the India question is one, respecting which it is of vital importance that those who will have to decide upon it should not be in error, regarding the facts by which they must be ultimately governed ; I ask your indulgence, while I endea vour to satisfy your judgment, that the article to which I refer is one which it is impossible for your lordship to adopt or sanction, and which. on the contrary, you are hound to repudiate, as utterly unworthy of con. fidence or respect. Never were the suppressio veri et suggestio falai' mote copiously il. lustrated within so limited a space. One would imagine, from a con. treat of the title and commentary, that although the committees were appointed to inquire into the drain of the East India Company, in the most comprehensive construction of those terms, no evidence whatever, in any degree worthy of notice, was received by either of the committees on any other subject than the China trade ; whereas, a reference to the reports and evidence will prove, that many other topics, equally grave and important, were fully considered. Bat, my lord, the truth is, that the accomplices in this imposture well knew that the assailants of 1 the Enit India Company had totally failed in their attempts to sustain by evidence their manifold imputations ; and, therefore, with their ac customed cunning, sought to distract the public attention from the con templation of that failure, and to entrap the public sympathies by an appeal to their selfishness ; hoping, in the hurly-burly of political con fusion, by which the present moment is so particularly distinguished, to snatch, by a premature decision of the Legislature, a measure of im. policy and injustice. The Cast and most prominent characteristic of this Review is the spirit of acrimony which pervades it throughout. This is illustrated by va rious extracts, the two concluding of which are, that the Reviewer in sists " that the Company should be absolutely interdicted from having any thing whatever to do with commercial affairs," and, that " no thing so monstrous was ever heard of u the proposal to continue such a system." There can be no difficulty in obtaining your Lordship's assent to my position, that these extracts from the Review exhibit a spirit of viru. lent acrimony, and a longing desire to fix upon the Directors the guilt of being governed in their conduct by the most dishonest and disho- nourable intentions. You will perceive that the present Reviewer furnishes extracts from the evidence, and selects those persons best entitled, in his estimation, to enjoy public confidence, and to govern the public judgment, in re ference to the great question of East India affairs. He makes the se lection, exclusively, from the proceedings of the Commons' Committee; and the witnesses whom he quotes are_ Captain Abel Coffin.—An American sea-captain, who speculated in the exhibition of the Siamese youths. and has brought them to this country : sailed three voyages to China, and stopped there, each time, fur a very short period. Mr. John Aken. —A slop-seller of Wapping ' • had been in the sea service, afterwards a second-class agent ut the Cape of Good Hope : made two voyages to China. Captain Charles Hutehinson.—Went three voyages from India to Canton ; stopped generally three or tour months each time. Joshua Bates, Esq.—An American, partner in the house of Baring, Brothers, and Co never was in India or China. Mr. John Deans.—Resided twenty years in the Eastern Archipelago as agent or merchant, principally in Java : had been twice in Canton a lonA time ago. Captain John Mackie.—Resided in India from 1820 till latter end of 1829 ; carried on a smuggling trade with China under Spanish colours. These five comparatively insignificant and half-informed witnesses are all that the reviewer selects out of forty ; witnesses, almost every one of whom had been long resident in China, or had much superior opportunities of becoming acquainted with the trading concerns of the company, and the Indian trade generally. If, my Lord, I were to rest here, with the single interrogatory, whether the writer of an article which professes to convey information to his readers, and yet purposely omits nil reference to the most im• portant evidence which has been taken, expressly, for the purpose of coil: cting that information, should be permitted to exercise the smallest portion of influence upon the opinion of the public or the decision of Parliament, l'sannot doubt but that your honourable mind would in dignantly negative his claim to confidence, and reject his alliance es a painful and disgraceful contamination. I will proceed now to notice Isome of the reviewers most serious misrepreseautams. The reviewer then gives a statement, dmirn from the official &ten ments laid before the Parliamentary Committee but year, to prove that the Company had received in excess of price, in the year 1828.!2t over and above the price of similar teas at Hambiirgh, the sum of £1,032,356. The bulk of the teas comprised in this statement consists of &basi l Congou, and Twankay, the prices of which at Hamburgh are said to have be;ii Bober • Congou Twankay ls. 2jd. But tbesepricas are actually lower than the cost prices in the Canton • go is 01 N (0( MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1831. PRICE 7D. market. exclusive of any charge whatsoever !! ! Vide statement in -.. .1611 of the Lords' Report, printed by the Common 4. ilth July, lal from which it appears that the coot prices in China are : athea Cnngou Twanksy .... Here then we have clear evidence, that the teas nurchasei at Han:- burgh at the prices comprix , il in the reviewer's stateincet. must have involved a ruinous loss to the importers. The revieser, however. res. sons upon his statement, as if it proved that the company sold the. 7 " teas in 1828.29 for the immense RIM of £1.832,3.% mole than thev would have fetched had the trade been free :" from which he wont wish us to inter, that the prices at llan:burgh are those at which the :ea would be sold here in a free trade. The utter fallacy of such a conclusion will be further apparent comparing the Hamburgit prices with those in America or in Holls:.d. And here I would observe, that in order to render the prices of i've same commodity in two countries fit objec , s of comparison, the circum stances of the two countries, 1)041 as to the demand for t h e article aryl I the facility of obtaining a supply of it, should resemble each other. In respect to tea, England and Holland are more assimilated than any two other countries which could be selected. In both, the rates of run. sumption, relatively with the population, do not greatly vary, and in both, black tea is the kind most generally used. From a comparative statement of prices of teas at Ham burg!) and at ltotterdarn. as shown in the official 7eturn , , applied to the quantities of the several sorts sold by tlle Company 182849, we find that the total excess of price et Rotter , :arn, over the reviewer's price at Htunburgh, was 1,309,7911. Seeing, then, that the prices which the I'dinburgh Reviewer has adopted as ti ose et which tea could have been sold if the trade had been free. arc 1,309,7911. lower than the prices realized in a fir trade at Rotterdam, the Reviewer's calculation is, I humbly submit, demo. lished, since it is quite evident that, upon a comparison of the London and Rotterdam prices, the excess of the former, instead of being 1.832,3561. as assumed by the Reviewer, is no more than 522 5651! ! Nor is it to be supposed, that even the statement, when thus cor. rectal, gives an accurate view of the ease. These calculations are (trended upon the assumption, that the qualties of the teas drought from Ilanthurgh, Rotterdam, and other places, are the same as thine sold by the Company ; whereas, on comparing the valuatien put upon the Hamburgh and Rotterdam teas by the London broker:, with the prices realized at the Company's sales, it will be seen that there is a material difference in quality. It appears that it' the teas sold by the Company in 1828,29 had been the same in quality as those brought from Rotterdam, they would havefetched 239,4001. less than they did ; and as we have already sees that the excess of price paid to the Company, as compared with Rotterdam prime, was 522,5651, it follows that the real excess— quality for ;panty, was that sum, minus 239.4601. viz. 283.1031. Now it is admitted, that the East India Company import their teas at a profit. 1 have already shown, that the price of the teas brought from Hatnburgh, upon which the Reviewer's statement is founded, did not equal the cost price at Canton ; and I must now state. that even the teas brought front Rotterdam were purchased there at a loss to the importer. In the select committee of the House of Commons, it is stated the return in tens of the Netherlands Association, " have caused a loss of twenty-five per cent, and that the Dutch private traders have aban doned the trade since the year 1825, in consequence of some heavy losses." The Reviewer next attempts to show that the Company have either violated or evaded the laws affecting the trade in tea. If so. why are they not impeached ? They seem to have many enemies always on the watch ; how comes it, then, that advantage is not taken of this sup. posed delinquency, to bring charges against the Company, and at once to dispossess them of their obnoxious privilege ? Hut to proceed with the Reviewer's mistakes. In page 288, speak ing of the allowances to the China servants, he says, that " the fac tory costs nearly as much as is required to defray the entire expense of the civil government of Scotland; and in page 289 he adds, that in 1828-29 the expense of the factory " amounted to 09,0861. which would give to each of the twenty gentlemen of which it consists,_ an average income of about four thousand five hundred a-year for doing DM to nothing." Be pleased, my Lord, to turn to page 103 of the Appendix to the Report frem the Commons Committee, and you will see that of the sum of 89,0861, which the Reviewer declares to be divisible among twenty persons, 16,7821. is for rent, repairs, and table at Canton ; and that the remainder was divided among twenty-seven persons instead of twenty, and this without reckoning copying writers and domestic ser vants, all of whom are paid out of the same fund. Refer, also, to page 15 of the Report from the Commons Committee, and you will find that the whole charge upon the Company's trade fo► management in China. is two per cent. whiltt the rates of " commission on the transactions of private traders and Americans in China appear to fluctuate from five to two and a half per cent." Then, as to freights, the Reviewer says the Company " were long in the habit of paying 261. 10s. of freight for such ships as they chartered, while private merchants were not paying more than 81. or 101. per tun ; and, although the Company have latterly reduced their freights, they are still about one hundred per cent, higher than the current rates." Where the Reviewer gets his information I know not. Even Mr. Akers, from whale evidence the Reviewer has quoted in support of his statements, rates the difference of freight at forty instead of one hun. Bred per cent. But let us again appeal to official documents. From the First Report it appears, that the average rate of freight paid by the Company from 1814 to 1829, was 181. 16s. 9d. per ton, instead of 261.105. as stated by the Reviewer; and if we turn to evidence given expressly for the purpose of showing that the Company's freights were extravagant, we find it stated by Captain Pope, " 1 could fi t a ship of 600 tons, the same as the Company 's ships are fitted, and sail that ship direct to Canton and back, for 131. • ton, and, for 21. a ton snore, I could pay the port clues," which are included in the Company's rates. So then, what the Reviewer calls 81. or 101. is 151; the difference be ! tireer, which and 181. 16s. Sd. is fully accounted for by the fact stated in evidence, not only by the Company's officers, but by witnesses opposed to the Company, viz. " that the ships were taken u p w h en anatesials for fitting ships were more expersive than they are now." Need I add, that the obligation to take up ships for a oaks of voyages is imposed upon the Company by law. will only state further upon this part of the subject, that the Re. viewer, whilst he insinuates that, notwithstanding the reductions which the Company have made in their frieghts, " they are still about one hundred per cent. higher than the current rates," has altogether forgot. ' ten to enlighten his readers with the simple facts elicited in the evi. dunce, and stated in the official documents, that the seductions to which the Reviewer refers will have the el ct of bringing down the Comprty's freight upon black tea to 21d. per lb. and that Mr Bates, the authority triumphantly referred to by the Reviewer as " decisive, " stated in evidence that the freight of the tea if bought in tr ee trade would be 3d. per lb. Two months, indeed, had scarcely passed away, when Mr. Bates told the Committee, " from experience, since my last examination, lam convinced that 24d. and 20. per lb. is high enough to fix the freight." We are not informed how Mr. Bates gained this experience, possibly he had seen the official statement, 'hewing that the Company's freight would not exceed 24d. per lb. and, in the ardour of his zeal, he came at once to the conclusion, that if that were indeed the case, if the Company could accomplish so much, the free trader must be able to accomplish still more. Certain it is, that the official state ment was made public in the period which intervened between Mr. Bates' examinations. But to return to the Reviewer. He states (page 291) that the Company " being the only sellers of tea, they invariably understoek the market." To this bold assertion, unsupported by proof, I oppose the evidence of the tea brokers. "Is there as much tea put up to sale as the consumption will take ?' Quite so ;in fact, we refuse tea al. most at every sale. What then, becomes of the impudent assertion, that the Company invariably understock the market ? He says (page 394), " The East.lndia Company are the only fo reigners trading to China who never dell except with the Hong mer chants:" he has forgotten to add the important fact stated by the Cont. mons' Committee, that they are " the ohly traders who abstain entirely from ail illicit dealing." We arc now presented with some of the extracts from the evidence of the six witnesses to whom I referred at the outset. The first quotation is from the evidence of Cap: aim Coffin, an American ; and, as a EOM men of the manner in which the selection is made, I will just observe, that whilst we are told that Captain Coffin said, in answer to the quer thin, ' But you do not give more for teas you purchase of the Hong merchant than you give to others ?" —" Not in any fray; we tire Mtn no further advantage than a preference of trade, if we can trade squatty well with him." The Reviewer has altogether omitted to add, that Captain Coffin was also asked, " Is there, in your judgment, any dif. ference between the quality of the teas putchased by the East India Company and those purchased by the Americans?' In answer to :~ ~\, ;. which he said, " I should think there was a difference front five ta ten per cent. in favour of the teas purchased by the Company." But the most extraordinary example of unfairness is in the geotation made from the evidence of Mr. Joshua Bates, in sh-ch \l.. Roes stated that the teas cost the country about a million and 4 11-111 more than they would if bought on private account. l'rein this : , o•ut Mo. Bates was examined three times: the Reviewer Kites only his first statement. Some judgment may be formed o f hi s natives f or not giving either the record or the third, when the tact is tmawn, that in the second 31r. Bates was called upon to give the particle-it:- of his cal - culation, and that having done so. it was most triumph: 31;1y sheave tit be full of inaccuracies and errors, some of which he Itimsde ocknow ledged on his third examination ! The Reviewer calls special attention to the evidence of Capt. John 3lackie, as *hewing "that it is a radical mistake to supnose that 1: commerce can be carried on with the Chinese except through the port cf Canton, and Captain Mackie traded every where along the coast . In deed ! Can it he, that the master of a small vessel of WO tons was per mitted to trade at various ports, whilst every port, excepting Canton, has been hermetically closed by the laws of the Celestial Empire against foreigners, in spite of the efforts of Lords Macartney and .intherst t obtain a relaxation of this prohibition ? Yes ; such is the feet. Ca.,. tarn Mackie had not indeed permiteion, but lie found his way least he says he did. And in what manner does your Lordship state, , •r he did so? Why, just as the master of a Folkestone lugger co'itrit es to land his tubs in spite of the Prev entire service and Custom-4m.. , fficers !! Heat his own wee . ..try. •• %Vas the trade you carried e" nos. therited by the laws of Citina?—i understood it was not author-as . it was done quite openly." An! this is one of the clan of witnesses ems whose evidence the Legislature are cow urged to act, in opposiiiee is :he opinions and statements of gentlemen of the highest character and r .spectability, who have passed years In China. the Reviewer proceeds to remark, " that the value of all the con nes dities exported by the company besides military stores, does not ex ceed the miserable pittance of 750,0001." But why ? may I ask. Is not the cause of this small export the necessity under which the (on piny are placed, as governors of India, of occupying the whole oc their trade from thence in the remittance cf that portion of the rev, ru t ..t which is expended in this country ? Can it be expected, that while jje Company must bring produce from India mufficient to rialize millions stetting annually, they should also bring returns for I .r.„-e yam.- titles of goods exported thither? It is clear that if they did eeies-t them, they must do as many of the free traders have been compelicd re 4ar submit to ruinous losses ; and is not the country deeply interested In realizing the Indian tribute ? Travel through any county in Eng land, and number the estates, and fortunes, and incomes created by Indian means. Remember, also• by extending exports to India, you reduce the value of the rupee in exchange upon England, and come quently compel the poor natives of ledia to yield more to effect the go vernment remittance than they did. Wlten all this is fairly considare,, we shall cease to wonder that the Company do not increase their ex• ports; and may perhaps be led to regret that we have not, in our fisted arrargerreats, sufficiently consulted the welfare and prosperity of the country from which we drew so largely. But the :teport says, that front 36,000 pieces imported by the .11. • racing into Canton, they have diminished to 16,370 pieces. Then the Reviewer says--" The American public have been Mein. dandy supplied with tea for little more than a third of what it ces • cost the people of England, exclusive of the duty. Ile may well ex• dude the duty ; for it is stated in the Evidence that the American (to. vernment forced the trade, by allowing 12 mouths' credit for the enti..s upon tea. This caused excessive importations. and consetieent r doe • Lion of price, to the ruin of the importer, the risk of the Hoveromeir. and the temporary benefit of the coesuntsr. A statement of what the teas brought from New Vatic, and velu , by the London broker, would sell for, according to the Reviewer's state ment, contrasted with what they were actually purchased at in Ame rica, proves the Reviewer guilty, on this head, of the gtossest exagge ration. It must be unnecersary for me to proceed. Every man of commoi. candour, who has followed me thus far, must be prepared to Otto, ride the Review in disgust ; for surely, whatever may be the opinior. entertained by different persons upon the East `ndia question, there env be but one, in censuring and consigning to inf any this glaring attempt to cheat and delude the public. But " usque ad nauseam." In page 315 rf the Review, we are 1". formed, that in 1814, the exports from Great Britain to India amounted to 870,1771. ; and in page 63 of the papers printed by the House ef Commons on the 9th of February, 1830, we are informed, under the signature of the Inspector-General of the Customs (quite at good an at'. tbority, we should presume, as the Edinburgh Reviewer) that such es ports amounted to 1,874,6901. The Reviewer has, therefore, left out t million ! Having made this blunder, he goes on to contrast the in crease in the amount of exports to India since 1814, with the assertion of the Company in 1813, that the opening of the trade .e would he • a other than a ruinous transfer of it into new channels, attended with t• beggary of many thousands of industrious individuals." How far this prediction of the Company has been verified, let the thousands or weav ers sod manufacturers in India testify. I pretend not to say that there ha. not been a gnat increase in the .spurt of 13titish manufactures to the Bast, but I do tiny that that advantage, if suet' it be, has been gaitb,l at the expense of multitudes of our Indian subjects, whose interetes have been overlooked in deference to the British manufacturer, In short, the throwing open of the trade would, your Lordship tray be assured, be detrimental alike to the finances of the empire at !ionic and our dominions abroad, without providing any serious odes:Ha ss e ler those who are moat loud in the clamour raised by the Reviewer soil his associates, ivassmsch as it distinctly appears by the evidence of their Own most approved witnesses, that the trade of other stn.-. with Chit has been either abandOned altogether, or greatly riAttesi% is Laprolitablc and injarious. And here I beg leave to mention, that witt'e vie 11,itis'• East Imlla Coutpany have successfully carri,4l on trade with the Companies of every other nation have uniformly failed. Here, toy Lord, I take my leave of this Revitistr. I have I 'et) him to he guilty of surprising information furni.htrl by inn:,r ulex. eeptionable witnesses, and of selecting for ;he puh!ic guidence a fees persons by no means entitled to such a preference. I have exposed his perversion of public accounts, and his deliberate misrepresentation of the terms of en Act of Parliament. In a word, my herd. 1 have esta blished his prostitution of the high office clan exalted public instructor to factious purposes, and have shown his on :a:thine:as to enjoy any portion of public confidence relative to this most important question, to to particiimte in its settlement. I purposely abstain from noticing the rumours which connect this article with an individual of some notoriety ; but should the identiliea. tion prove correct, and the writer return, in the same spirit and througi. the:same channel, to a further review of the India Question, he shall be taught to feel how much he is at present indebted for mercy and rot. bearance to your Lordship's most obedient servant, _ 41 L RTII ES The Killarney P.or Seholar.-111 the Rev. I. STEWART. This is a very pleasing and interesting little wo, k, from the pen of the intelligent author of Bible Gems. It is printed and published by the enterprising Mr. Skill. of Swaffham, from whose press are constantly issuing vo lumes admirably adapted to amuse and instruct every el.ts, of youthful readers. The present little ptoductiou contains clever descriptive sketches of the beautiful scenery for which the neig•hhour hood of the Irish Lakes, have been so long and so joitt:ly celebrated, interspersed with amusing pen-and-ink portraits of living characters. " The author has visi:ed every spot he describes, and lived among the people of whom he writes. There is hardly a character introduced whom he cannot lay his linger upon; there is no painting at random, nor a single caricature." Cours de Litienature Francais. ; or, a coarse of in French Literature. Hy J. ROI/DOTHAN. JOY. lira. This judicious and clever little volume is on precisely the sante plan as the author's valuable German Lessons noticed in our last publication of the 17th of last September. It consists of a copious and varied selection of passages, in prose and verse, from the classical writers of the French, from the time of Rochefoucault to the present day, ar ranged for the use of those who are acquiring the language. in brief and progressive lessons, accompanied with an inter linear translation, both literal and free. The nature of the work would not allow of lengthened quotations, and there foie few are sufficiently ample to convey a full ides of tilt: characteristic manner of their authors ; a desideratum that might be easily supplied by one so conversant with French literature as the intelligent author of the work now hefote us, either in an appendix to f u t ure e di t i ons , or i n a separate publication in continuation of the above. In conclusion. we can safely recommend the French Lessons to heads of schools and private students as ad mirably adapted, in conjunction with the same gentleman's excellent and well-known French Grammar, to promote the speedy and thorough acquirement of that fashionable language. Coaches were first used in England in Richard tie costa time, mink: the none of Wilhite:4es. What sett our own then were in point of is is not easily **detained* 'bet hi Osman!, we are told, about &same period, they woe •rebirles..niade -ea fete cluroly boards:" of diem, as late as 1618. John Si f tternina• ti e Elector of &admire:et, when he went to Walser:, to do homeve to the Duchy of Warsaw, had 36 in his train each drawn by tie ham% Our hackney coaches are so called from the French word •' twiaerik, - , common horse, for all purposes of tiding.-4. J. W. 0; - z --_ _ , liihv • 0, onoisAitpro 1788.