The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-02 00:00:00

[THE TIMM.]

The printed statements of India finance are at
this moment more than commonly entitled to no-
tice, from the increased public interest arising
out of the war pressure upon the Company,—
The accounts extending to 74 folio pages of
arithmetic, we shall not trouble our readers with
more than a brief abstract of the sums-total.—
There is, or appears to be (for we do not vouch
it), a surplus revenue from the Company's em-
pire, after paying all charges, military and
civil, in India, exclusiVe of the interest, on
debt; but the expences of the home establishment
viz. Leadenhall-street, in its innumerable depart-
ments arid 'dependencies, form no item in the
statements of charge referred to, so far as we
can discover. These home disbursements consti-

tote, no doubt, together with interest on debt,
the application or consumption of the net revenue,
as well as of the profits resulting from the China
trade, for the monopoly 'of which.; on behalf of
Leadenhall-street, the English nation is so pre-
posterously, but so grievously, taxed.
The revenue of Bengal only, as. estimated for £
1823-1824 stands in the accounts at - - 13,215,300
(being less than that of the year preceding by
upwards of 900,0001.)
The charges, as estimated for the same 1823-1824,

are -- - - 9,490,772
(being more than the expence of the ;ear pre-
ceding by above 580,0001.)
The net surplus, therefore, from Bengal, as esti-
frir 1 f19.1_1n91, 0..11 tr... • - 3,724,528
(falling short of the net revenue of the previous •
year by nearly a million and a half.) .
But again, an estimate made in contemplation of
war is vary to be too favourable in its antici-
pation both of receipts and charges. The difficul-
ties, crosses, delays, and consequent expenditure
of the Burmese war, were,, ive imagine, not quite
of a nature to ~be correctly appreciated by the
sort of men who undertook that contest. There
seems reason to be apprehensive, therefore, that
the net income from Bengal enjoyed by the Com-
pany, for the years 182.3.-1444.; will by no
Means exceed.,
.if it should not on. the contrary
fall short of, the estimates in the official docu--
ment. However, Bengal -is the only-presidency
IfroM which any thing like a surplus revenue is
anticipated ; all the others; without exception,
It yield what is facetiously termed "a net charge"--
that is to say, an excess of. expenditure over in-
come. jlladras, for the , aboye,utentioned year,
is, instead of a profit, to be a burden of
more than 660,0001.; . Bombay, 101)0001.; Ben-
Cooler', 76,0001.; Prince of -Wales's Island,
50,5001., over all receipts. This will be a
deduction from- the surplus revenue of Bengal
to the amount or 887,500/. To this-must be ad-
ded the interest on the Company's debt, amount-
ing, for air the presidencies, to 1,735,0001.: add
St. Helena, about 112,0001:; and these several
sums when subtracted from the estimated net in-
come of rental, reduce the proceeds to 988,0001.,
short of a million sterling, with which to pay off
debt, to support (as we must take for granted)
large home establishments, and to carry on a te-
dioUs extensive, and incalculable war. Of the

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China trade, to be sure, they tell us nothing;
hut if it be not more flourishing than the Bengal
treasury; it may be said that the Honourable
COmpany had better look about them.

The town of Christiana (says a letter from
that place) has been so enlarged and beautified
in the course of the last ten years, that those
who have not visited it within that period
have great dilicultywin recognizing it. Measures
are now in progress for building a new Town-
house, as well as an Exchange.

Mit.-BROWN.-On.the.',;ool nit. died., in John-
street, Fitzroy-square, WILLIAM: BROWN, Esq. in the 77th
yeat of his age. His talent as a Gem Engraver will hand down
MS name, in conjunction with those of
.his contemporaries,
MARCHANT and BURCH., to the latest posterity; his univer-
sal philanthropy, his unaffected kindness and intrinsic worth,
will he ever remehibered by his faMily. and friends, to whom
his death is a source of the most sincere sorrow. In early _life,
Mr. Brown enjoyed the patronage of the Empress Catherine .of
Russia, and had an unlimited order for, her cabinet, in which
the principal part of liiiivorki are placed. Her :death closed
the certain reward of MS exertions ; and the French revolution
obliging hiM to quit Paris, where he enjoyed, a high reputation
in the Court of Louis XVI. he returned to England, to find
his favourite.art negletted and forgotten; except where the in-
genuity of Italian' artists could extract from
his wealthy coun-
trymen immense sums for modern antiques and spurious spe-
cimens of Greek or Roman workmanship. Of Burch and
Marchant, men of the highest tttlent,the former had sheltered
himself in the Royal Academy, whete• 'he was appointed' Li-
brarian; the latter had accepted a situation in'the Stamp Office,
as an engraver of Stamps. tinder these discouraging circum-
stances, Mr. Brown still Continued to exercise his, profession,
and engraved a series of. Pcirtraits of illustrious characters of
Eniland, part of which are is the. possession of his Majesty.--•-
His last great work was a Cameo; for the lid of 'the box pre-
sented by the Light Horse Volunteers to Colonel Berries.