The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-09 00:00:00

' author enumerates, with great force and cleames,
the humiliation, as well as substantial penalties,
to which all Englishmen, without exception,
save those in authority civil or military, arc there
subjected.
" 1. An Englishman cannot resort to India,— to
that country, the acquisition of which has, of all our
possessions, cost Englishmen the greatest share of
blond and treasure,—without licence from the East
India Company. This licence, too, is granted with
difficulty, that it may be made an object of patron-
age. When given, it is clogged with fees, forms,
and illegal indentures, by which theapplicant is called
upon for unlimited submission to the bye-laws of the
East lodia Company.
" •1. When arrived in India, his licence is liable,
at any moment, to be withdrawn by the servants of
the Company, and his person may be transported to
England without any cause assigned.
" 3. An Englishman cannot go beyond ten miles
of the seats of government without a special licence,
and such licence may be recalled without any cause

assigned.
" 4. An Englishman, residing ten miles beyond a
principal settlement, which means the to,,vns of Cal-
cutta, Madras,and Bombay, must file a copy of his
licence in the civil court of the district. Failing the
production of an attested copy of such licence, he
cannot have or maintain any civil action or pro-
ceeding (other than in the nature of appeal) against
any person whomsoever, in any court of civil juris-
diction within the British territories in India ;' and
proof being given to the court that such licence does
not exist, or is defective, such British subject shall
thereupon be nonsuited.'
" 5. Such licence must he for a particular place
named; nor must your free-born Englishman'
move from such place, even into an adjoining dis-
trict, without further leave.
" 6. An Englishman found beyond ten miles of a
principal settlement, without licence, may be seized,
imprisoned, and sent within his bounds by the
meanest retainer of the Government.
"7. An Englishman is prohibited from being
concerned, directly or indirectly, in the great inland
trade in salt, betel-nut, tobacco, and rice, on pain of

forfeiting the goods he is thus said to be illegally
dealing in, and treble the value thereof.' The
origin of this silly and mischievous law is curious
enough. The Company's own servants, shortly
after their conquest of Bengal, had monopolized the
articles in question, and the ininstizT and extortion
practised by them of course ruined the trade of the
country. For this good and sufficient reason, Eng-
lishmen, not in the service of the Company, and
therefore without the power of committing such
abuses, are excluded from dealing in them for ever
after I

" 8. An Englishman may not manufacture opium
nor salt, two of the staple products of India. With
respect to the latter, he is not allowed to deal in it
directly, even within the limits of the jurisdiction of
the King's courts.
" 9. ' An Englishman,' to use the words of the
author of the appeal, may not settle, colonize, in-
vest his fate or his fortune in the soil of India. He
must not hold or farm lands without the limits of

the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. This
is the great and standing law of the land, enacted
in 1793, and confirmed again and again by the Com-
pany, who regard this and the power of summary
deportation as the corner-stones of their existence.'
" 10. Englishmen in India are forbid from meet-
ing in public bodies, without leave of the Company's
servants, and unless the object of the meeting lie
agreeable to the servants in question.
" 11. Englishmen in India are deprived of jury
trial in all civil cases whatsoever.

" 12. Englishmen in India are deprived of the
liberty of the press. No man in Bengal can print
or publish, or cause to be published, periodically,
any paper whatsoever, in any language or character
whatsover, containing, or purporting to contain,
public news or intelligence, or strictures on the mea-
sures and proceeding-of Government, or any political
events or transactions, without licence. Such li-
cence may be recalled without any cause assigned.
If any person shall print as above without licence, he
shall be liable for such offence in a penalty of 401.,
at the discretion of two stipendiary magistrates ap-
IG4;ted by the Company, and removable by them at
pleasure. If he cannot pay the forfeiture and rea-
sonable costs, he shall he sent to the common gaol,
there to remain for a period not exceeding four
months. If any person shall knowingly and wil-
fully, either as a proprietor, or as agent, or servant of
such proprietor, or otherwise, sell, vend, or deliver
out, distribute, or dispose of; or if any bookseller, or
proprietor, or keeper of any reading-room, library,
shop, or place of public resort, shall knowingly or
wilfully receive, lend, give, or supply, for the pur-
pose of perusal or otherwise, to any person whatso-
ev,?r,' any political paper published without licence,
or after the recall of a licence, such offender is to
be fined to the sgrile amount, and by the same
authority.
" 13. An Englishman residing in India has not
the slightest share in, or the remotest inthience upon,
tl;,a Government to the maintenance of which he so
mainly contributes with his money, labour, and en-
terprise. tie has not so much even as a voice in
the nomination of a scavenger in the towns of Cal-
cutta, Madras, and Bombay, although strictly co-
lonial possessions of the Crown. Contrary to the
and example of all British institutions, and to
the prine;ples of all good government everywhere,
the East India Company rapaciously seizes the mu-
nicipal revenues alai mtmicipal appointments, and
makes a job of both.
" 11. If an Englishman, on his return home,
small bring any suit or action against the East India
Company, or any of their servants, for the recovery
of any costs or damages, for the unlawful taking, ar-
resting, seizing, imprisoning, sending, or bringing
him into the United Kingdom, the defendants may
pead the general issue, and proof shall lie on the
plaintiff to show that he was lawfully in India.' In
failure of such proof, the free-born Englishman shall
be nonsuited, and pay treble costs, any law, statute,
or provision to the contrary notwithstanding,' The
very law of this land is here expressly set aside to
pi,otect the East India Company in their evil-doing!
" tn,:h is the brief detail of the disabilities of
those persons whom the East India Company now
desires further to hu;7;iliate and oppress, by subject-
ing them to the same system of capricious taxation
to which they have subjected their iadin hewers
of wood anti carriers of water."

After this, we suspect that Members of Parlia-
ment will pause before they vote for the renewal
of such a code of grievances under the opera-
tion of a charter; but there is another circum,
stance to be added. All other nations can trade
to China hut the English alone, without asking
leave of the India Company. The people of
England have had the insane complaisance to
hotow upon this overgrown corporation a mono-
poly of chg most lucrative commerce, in the
cp,t;"nt;a4sinagnidt
enjoymentsto turntile
world, for talige4tztp
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the mistresz
Morta°glYrantor. In every region of the globe,
except England, which calls herself
of the East, that article which has long become
a necessary of life to rich and poor among us, is
aold for less than half what it costs an English-
man. The Company, even if not bent on ex-
travagant profitr.i,,LPUld not carry on the tea trade,
or sell the tea, on terms of fair rivalship with
any private merchant ; yet to the disadyantage
of being forced, or rather forcing himself, to buy
from an expensive and improvident shop, the
Enghshtnan suffers the chartered shopkeeper to
charge him a double profit on the goods which
have been bought at higher prices, and brought
home at heavier freights, than those which mer-
chants of other nations pay, and on which they
arc contented with the natural profit. The truth
is, that so iniquitous a monopoly, combined with
6 a despotism so tremendous, cannot be revived in