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London, England, 1821-05-23 00:00:00

eluded hy the power of their own Government Ilion
a most profitable branch of trade...which iiist the
I siiiie time open to the inhabitants of every other
I. country. This trade is actually Ogle of the moos
lucrative that engage the a.teuttion of the Alsip-
Americans; it enables them to Custer the marloq,
of Europe with singular trilvauttorgeo, and there to

7414emoete socceerfoily with the Lords of the Great
lassterit l'ettinsisla themselves, while it gives em-
ployment to nearly one half of the American
with its due propornoti of seamen. The
concserreiser of the Committees of both floti•es in
.reciwritorittling this extension of the a tern trade, i.
calculated to ensure the conseilt of Parliament. A
Bill fur effecting Ode purpo.e will, we presiono, be
iunned.ately introduced into the Douse of Corn-
111011S, for the Report dassing this point among the
facilitiei." which may be granted to the f("eilt"
trade of the empire previous to ilie Hamilton of any
general measure, remarks, that it "cannot th-
layrd to a future year without the ti,k of losing
much of the beneficial results which at the plesesit
time may be expected from it."
The public are no doubt aware that such a mea-
Imre lutes fetes ill Ha respect whatever with the char.
tered tights and immunities of the Esst India
Company. The proposed law will only put Eng-
lush subjects upon the some footing with respect to
the hullo trade that foreiguers etiroy, or that
Eligh*li subjects may now 'enjoy', if they wish to
embank their capitol in foreign ships, and equip
them io foreign 11110)4.1ns. But it does nut open
British harbours or BriOali markets here or in the
colonies to the new traders ; it only enables them
to trade Ititectly in British *hips between the East
Indies and foreign ports in any part of the world
Ifrom which they are lint excluded by the munici-
pal laws of any particular country. The measure

sut:gested by the Committee due. net extend to
allow Briiish 'subjects, under the same limitations,
to meddle with the Chine or tea •trade, although it
may perhaps be difficult to tell why British sub-
ject, mad• not engage in a hale in which the
A esglo.A inericans are now deeply embanked, and
iii which they employ annually 12,000 Wns of ship-
ping. It assuredly would not entrench more
deeply upon the advantages enjoyed by the Com-
pany that► the seine 'sower of trading in the hands
of the Aineuicsns. We know it will be urged that
the license or intemperance of free British !riders
may injure the chancier of the East India Com-
pany's servant'', and be the cause possibly of ex-
cluding British ships altogether from the harbour
of Canton ; but there i■ no greater danger that
free Briti;h traders should conduct themselves im-
properly in the harbour of Canton than in soy.
other port in the world, or that their general de-
meanour in their intercourse with the Chinese
should hear a worn character than that of the free
Americas' traders. The trade of the Americans
continnea to prosper and to increase, and it is an an-
questionable truth that fewer quarrels, jealousies, or
'difficulties have arisen within the same space of
time between the Chinese authorities and the
American• than between them and the Select
Committee of the Company's Factory. Should
any of the British free traders, however, cotaltict
themselves with such a wanton contempt of their
own interests us to provoke the displeasure of the
Chinese authorities, the experience of some peg
events (triton, especially the rupture in 1810
upon our occupation of Macao) offers ■ sufficient
assurance that the Chinese will be very well able
and willing to distinguish between the actual
offenders and those who have no community with
them, rave the identity of language and country.
We cannot indeed see that any possible injury
could accrue to the East India Company from
admitting British subjects to compete in the lea
trade of China—not with them, but with foreigner.,
and especially with the Americans. The question,
in point of truth, does not lie between the Coin'
patty and the free trade's of Great Britain, but he-
to.reei the free trader. and the North American..
The latter, at the present tuoment, enjoy almost a
monopoly in supplying the continent of Europe
with tea, while the Compa'•y are scarcely able to
supply Great Britain alone with this article of
universal consumption. If the carrying trade be.
*wren China and the continent of Europe were
now opened to the merchants of England, a very
large share of the supply of the continent would
almost of necessity full into their hands, and would
give employment to very little short of 8,000 tons
annually of British chipping, without affecting, in
the remotest degree, the interests of the East India
Company.

The Paris Papers of Saturday lust have arrived.
The following is an extract :
PMl's, MAT 19.
Yesterday, before mays, the King gave private
audiences to 11. de Nariselikin, Grand Chamber-
kin of his Mujessy the Emperor of Ituasiit ; to the
Count Deseze. Peer of Fiance ; sod M. B. de
Courson, Superior Officer of the Royal Guard.
Accorilisig to the Piedmuntese Gazelle of the 10th
May, the King. Victor Emmanurl, with his family,
was at Nice on the Sth of this month.
The Genoa Gazette of the 9th Mmy, though it
ininolinces thin the King.. Charles has UM-
II men the Crown, soya ',tithing concerning the de-
panitre of that Priney for hi. doinintous.
Five prr cent. Comolo, 83 fr. 75 cents.—Bank
Actions, 1,557 fr. 50 cents.

The Journal of Rome, of the 3(1 instant, con.
taint the lottowing atatetnent, under the dote of
A 'moon, April 24:—" Very recent orifices from
Epi►us announce that the famous An VACUA, of
Janina, bus been killed by his Secretary."