The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-04 00:00:00

tie' manufacture would be,mucl► increased in India

Noticing the arguments which had been advaaced
in behalf of the Company, he was astonished that
in the 19th century, they were to hear the prin-
ciples. of monopoly and shackled trade so stre-
nuously advocated, and attempts made to, support
by reasoning, that narrow ;iystetn of commercial
policy which bad been pursued under the House
of Tudor. He was happy that M nisters, in the
Resolutions which they proposed, had not ne--
glected the interests of the Company ; for he was
sure that all the advocates for free trade would be
Happy to give every assistance to regulations whose
object was to promote the, governing interests of
the Company.
Mr. BARING wished to state, in a few words,
the reasons which would determine the vote which
be should give upon the question before the Com-
mittee. Being a commercialruan, he was of course
rather interested in voting with 'those who were
the advocates of free trade, it he thought that any
advantage could result from laying open the trade
with India. . 'When _they were told so much about
the advantages that would result front throw-
ing open the trade to India to private persons,
they shotdd recollect that this was already done ;
Vie question,' therefore, was not whether there
should or should not be a private trade—that was
already decided, and there was a private trade ;
privtite persons might send goods to India in any
quantity they pleased. The- question then came
to be, whether the private trade was to remain
subject to certain restrictions. And here, on the.
one band, the out-ports came and asserted, that
by removing the restrictions which then existed,
the consumption of British goods in India would
be much increased ;—on the Other band, the Com-
pany, who knew the country, said that this was
a mistake, and to prove it they bring forward
persons of great 'experience in Indian affairs, who
corroborate the statement of the Company in a
mass of valuable and incontrovertible evidence.—
Taking every circumstance, and considering- duly
the authority which the Company had produced
in behalf of their statement ; (and after all they
would be obliged to go upon authority in pre-
, ference to reason,) it was impossible pot to think
that the Most dangerous conseqtienc,es would en-
sue from permitting 'the unrestrained intercourse
of Eurcipeans withthe natiVeaof India. • Alluding
to what had been said by some Members on the
subject of the-trade with India being a losing con-.
tern to the Company, be inferred from thence
that as the, Company could not wish to retain
that trade front any motive of interest, it being so
unprofitable to them; the Only object which could
make them wish 'to retain it was, •a regarki to the
liappiness'of the people of India, which would be
destroyed by permitting the unrestrained influx of
Europeans. He conceived that the out-ports
had treated the Honse in a way that seemed almost
disrespectful, by first loading the table with pe-
titions and'calling for, a Committee ; when this
request was, complied- with, and when the Com-
pany before. the. Committee produced an immense
mass'of evidence, they went into the debate with-
out producing a shy& Witness to., support their
cause. The lion. Member then went on to argue
that tile trade with 'lndia could not be extended
by laying it oPen: He mentioned the different
articles which could be imported from India, and
referring to the cotton trade, he expressed his as.•
toniiihnient at the singular delusion under which
the nthnnfactm:ers of this country acted in peti.-
tioning to be allowed to export cotton manufac-
tures to India, where, instead of finding a ready
market Erin them., they wotild be brought into a dis.-
advantageous:Competition with the manufactures
of the natives.' He conceived that Ministers had
used the Court of Direstors unfairly, by ,refusing
to afford information, or to communicate with
them. On the' subject of patronage, he contrasted'
time etandect of (novel nnient with that of time Com-
pany, in the dispOstil of offices : r,y the former,
patronage was used da the means-of providing for
persons whom Ministers were ashamed to provide
for at home ; while by the Company offices were
disposed of hi the most honourable and impartial-
way. Were be to cite an instance to prove what
he had said on this head, he would allude CO the
appointment of no. less an officer than the Goiter-
nor General. * Was there a person embarrassed in
his circumstances, and nearly reined in his private
concerns, or perhaps whose character suffered,
he was the person chosen to fill the office of:Go- -
vernor General of Bengal ; and to the .appoint-
ment of such an individual the Company 'agreed,
in the fallacious hope that it might propitiate Go-
vernment icy the cause in which they were then

ellattaell, • •
Mr. Sttt.c,lVAN and Mr. "Intim° mutually ex-
plained.
1401,:d CASTLEREAGH Mill, that his NoJesty's Mi-
nisters, so far from refusing to COMOHIHiCAC with
the Court of Directors, they had interviews with
them for three or tour days, and this was broken.
0101 thle Court of Directors, who chose to make,
petremptory deei6in, to the great surprise of Go-
vcvtiow4,l•• therefore, any Member should make
uclt a charge a had been insinuated by the-Hon.
t;,.tfli nlan who spoke last, I“,inely., that his Ala'
3t•f-Ay's Ministxis lutd refused to have prOpet'
kvith'ihe Court: of Directors, it.tVus•tt
CL:fgc wollid most distinctly and posi-
tively deny:
Mr. TIELNEY Ob6prved, that •it Certainly A.VaS
true that when the Court of Directors wished to be
informed why the elrtinis'of tiki out-ports had been
acceded to, they were refurred,to documents on the
table of the House of Commons. He wished to
know why this bad been done ? and he certainly
would bear out his Honourable Friend. in.tlre ;is-
sertion, that when the Court of Directors applied'
for'inforination, it was refused by Govermnent;
,Lord CASi'LEREAGH in reply said, that the con-
atibilion;ll way, of transacting hilliness was upon
palwr, au4 that therefore the proper way of an-
toNeritog the Court of Directors, and,the only way
wttich vtißs recognised. by the Constitution, was,
to rei;"! •11,1-*tit to those written documents from
which. his Niallety's. Min titer& had made tip their
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