The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-15 00:00:00

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

• -Sin,
A PetCtion to Parliament hAving beery made from
certain;Merchants of Greenock for permission to
trade to the Ea.t IncLe?, as the., charter of the East
India Company is near expiring, the following ob•
servations you will have the goodness to insert in
your Newspaper, as they may perhaps be useful:
When the charter of our Great Turkey Company
expired, and wive!' was
,never renewed, in conse-
quence of PL:dtions to Parliament against exclusive
Companies, that trade was thrown open to the p9by
lie, arid individuals, instead of acquiring immense
wealth, as they vainly expe&ed, met with ruin. If
this is doubt,-d, let Porter on the Turks be examin-'
ed. This book was written by Sir JAMES PonTan,
the Briti,h AmbasSador at the Porte, who well
knew the-causes of the decline of the Turkey com-
merce, and which could not be carried on,
without an exclusive chartered Company with full

po vitt
The -French took advantage of the ahtlition of
the' Turkey Comp-my, and established o e them-
selves, called the Commerce de Marseilles, who‘e
regulations were very strict ;i' so much so, that a
servant of the Company- ceased being such the in-
stant he married a Greek woman. • The Greek wo-
men are remarkable for their extravagance in Tar-
key, and the danger to their husbands (wlgee
cr
their characters) was so 'great, that they could no
longer he eotrusted'.w.ith the concerns of the Colo-
pany. The French Turkey trade rose on the ruui
of that of Great Britain..
The late Lord Viscount Mcevreec, when Mr.
DUNDAS said, in the House 01 Commons, " 1!);.it
all the individuals (Merchants of the United States
of America) who had treled to the East Indies, ft:e.l
been ruined."---Why ? Because that trade could.tiot
he carried on but by a chartered Company w th
foil
powers: for if it were free—then e•ech Merehal t
would ad with secrecy, and independent of another;
so that the market in India tr.L:,ht be glutted wi h
particular commodity, and winch happened often in
the open trade ;o Turkey : where the Jews and Ar-
menians combined to cheat the adventtirets. A
question may here be ashed " whether the Natives of
India possess less craft than the Jews and Arreeniens
of Turkey ?" and if they do not, the -same causes
will certainly again prodtice the same etfeets. If,
any Merchant imagines he co.:t acqeire a lao.; for-
tune in fair competition (Smuggling out of the q'lfl•
, tier:) with the East India Comp w , tie will soon, by
Woeful exrerience, find the contrary, and his ruh
must and will. be inevitab:e.
There are individuals wicked enough to care little
for the welfare of their country; and in the war of
the American Revolution, there w.ete English Mer-
chants who supplied the French Government with
salt provisions, &c. to victual the French navy.--,--
One Mel-o.me, at Bricql, madethh-ty thoo•eted.
rounds stoning by tei.ll salt fe:."
sale French, be the way ot. St. Eustatia, and 'with.,
out which assistance the French could not hat e
rta-
vigated their men of war in the West Indies. This
nefarious traffic put Great Britain to the expense of
above fifty millions sterling. Suppose a Merchant
of similar sentiments, trades to Lndia, does he care
what becomes of the East lotha trade, or of Great
Britain itself one hundred years hence?
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient,
Humble Servant,
A CORRESPONDENT.

February 11, 1812.

Marquis WELLESLEY'S MISSION to SPIIIN.

The following are the accounts which Mr. Richard
Wellesley explained, in his speech to the House of
Commons ou Monday night, relative to the Noble
Marquis's expenses during his Embassy to Spain
in 180 g :
The 'Rital amount of expenditure was - C16,9e3 J 7 to
Of this sum there was paid, being the value of
various articles purchased for the Embassy,
and afterwards sold by the Marquis on the
public account