The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-06-28 00:00:00

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PAPERS

RELATIVE. TO EAsvg IbLIA AI FAIRS. .
(Ordered by the Haiti, of Cossoluos to be printed, Map
Istu.l

No. I.—Lspositioa of the State af the Compan's Flllllllllret,
at ►uew sad abrus4:—Suliatitted to the fluauointila
Costurittee of the House of Cettasauus, appointed to take
tutu (yaw/erasion' the affairs of the List hubs Cuaupaay.

(Ceatiassil from our Psper of last week.)
The plan of funding the Indian debt, which was
agitated last year, derives additional recommenda-
tion from present and prospt•etise cirt•umstru:ces.
The Bengal Government have ln en desired to give
their opinion, whether it would be likely to be ac-
ceptable its India ? and their answer may be .ea-
peeled in the course of the torrent year. But
another nisasure also mentioned to the Bengal Go-
ve iiiiii eta appears now to he indispensable ; that of
establishing a sinking fund in India. The means
are not easy, but it is nut iinpussible to devise some
new resources, to which the exigencies of this event-
ful period ought to reourile the Company, and all
whose interests are embarked will) then.. 'lt is
vious, however, that no esprit ems for reducing the
debt cast prove sufficiently effectoial. unless tin
solute ►imit is put to the increase of expee,2. 1.,
the military department the charges nve rapidly
advanced of late gems, and in tin.• branch of it,
even since the Mahratta pew e; thatris. bribe :rug•
mentation of King's troops said to Indio, which the
change in our political situation in India, by the late
war there, and the pole.ibilay of new commotion*,
have required, and wfiii h the contingency even of
a laud invasion of India may render necessary upon
a I urge scale. This subject, although it form• an
article in the long account hetweris Government
and the Company, yet, as connected with present
and prospictise circumstances, it is thought exist,-
&oat again to introduce here. The Company have
incurred a great charge on account of Ihese troops.
and they think that they have an equitable claim on
Government, not only for the new and excessive
expense to which they have been subjected in the
last four years. but for the whole number of King's
inky* exceeding the Parliamentary limit which
have been sent out sncu•e the costunesiceueent of the
foreign Uspeilitions final India, which began in
17!17;and bit tic snh•ryurut military operation*
in which these troops assisted, here rutin. iinnie-
disiely §tivril national purposes against the Frsisclis
a.ea in the war of Nly...re, or have beer, carried on
tinder the controtil of Ills Mane Government.
The statement. N. n, ohms : 1111)411y hire
a !NMI Oas all this-e accounts to tar amount of
1.1100.00111.

It is now become absolutely neceonery to draw the
line lieyund which the Company shall not /IWO, the
clisrge of K.ug's troops sent to ludic I: nub .11
that hasjoist been state.!, it is sullieienth plain that
nor Indira revenues will not, with the re.piisate'al-
lowances fur the other branches of pithlic expeo,ll.
lure, suffice for the payineitt of the present
establishments, of which the 11,,ing'•,. troops, in.
eliiding their 'passage to suit from India. and the
recruiting service, toms so extensive a part. Re-
diter:on, therefore, is here indispensable. increase,
peptide from the Mods of the. Compsny, is iitsporw
whir ; and this is a subject on which a sleet and
Definite iiiirlersimoinT 1, immeitia.ely necessary.
For wars growing out of our Indian system, at
least before we lied spread ourselves, as within
these few yens we have done, over so much of the
Continent of Hindustan, our tnd.an resources, with
the aid of loans, have been found *deplete. These
loans, indeed, have proved prejudicial to the Come
Irony. and have already been extended to an sunannt
which could not have been preconceived. Bin
against the invasion of great European armies fry
land, the Company's revennes can by no memos
provide, and it may be doubted whether the cur-
rent revenues of the nigh' Empire, when flourish-
ing and under one head, world long have beets suf-
ficient for such purpose. It' the Eastern teriitory
were possessed by an [wimp Prince, dtpendeut
on this country, what Inure could he expected of
him thais to use the utmost means his territory
afforded against the common enemy ? The
nation has an interest in itreservitig the taste' n
possessions to this country, mid Gorr the hands of
the French, greater even than that of the Com-
pany. The Company have acquire.l, and main-
tained them, infinitely more to the advantage of
the patina at large than it' own. If thooe pt),w -
%ions should at length be assailed by powers to
which the revenues and resim•ces derivable from
them Can pros de no etc •ctual orposicon, it w but
just that some part of ti e wealth which has fumed
from them into Great Britain. through public sand
private chrome a, for the last fifty years. should he
employed in their defence ; and in dere ding th«na
our r.f se n they have themselves for..ished, t',ls
notary wi I only act in the maintenance of its osti