The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-07 00:00:00

LA.3I I.tbld COMI'AIVY.

FitOM THE RELECT COMMITTEE OF
THE HOUSE oF COMMoNS, APPOINTED To INQUIRE
INITO THE PREiENT STATIE OF THE AFFAIRS OP
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. •

(( untinued fr. in Yesterday I

Ei.vingAt •ted the funds themselves. the next ob-
ject & -your Committee's it quity becotnes the ap-
pliea too (it
The num.-to in which the charges of the Govern-
ment of India, ant themnierest ts: the debts ex-
ceeded (Ito of 'the territorial revetrue.s (hiring this
pm tammd, tqrsbeen amreamry stated, in a former report,
at the s,unt of 4 987,6761. A retemcnce to the acs
vaunts from ,v time; result was' produced, Will
chew, tit .4 lion' the want of, Ole Bengal statements_
for the two titter'years,' 1807-8 aod tA08.9., the
ti w
.given c tad not be assumed as completely ac-
curale ;.ited it hi -also to be remarked, that it has
bp-ott .the .tif. the Company's Auditor to
make s,.th cot recrions or adiustments„of accounts
premed hy him -from time to time,' as the .subse-
quell, adVrces from I dia appealed to enjoin ; the
propriety W' i ti- wli tie otw•otts,- wilco it is re-
me:ob. red. .1 not only open the occasion' now
adverted to, bums, others, tin, a' enunts,were
ptred in Engl. rid !ruin Such general statements as
had been rem, emi ; in which •tatetneimis it has hap-
pened that. Ott' of the n•osi es-coital heads of co.ir_r,
viz, the milir3ri.has been stmfeo on time amount of
She ashanLes made lc the payin.msmers, ,sod not on
the adhal amount disbursed the c .use of it has
been explained to arise nom the uppotsobility of
drawing pp the accountsin aoy l ih r way within
the time prescribed ; the immense distance of the
military stations flow the Ptesidefiey of Bengal!
preventing an eat her trim,ll:i,sion of the (1.-tarlid
diibursements of that Presidency. • But act,t,ra:e
statements having been since received ft out the Pi e-
silency of Bengal, of the receipts and dmshurse-
rn,m's of the )ears before sliewil in an incomplete
state, your Cottnittee have ten it right to
call fur such-aci.ounts as appe .rodio be wanting,
together with ',ucli other adjustments as were tie.
cesary to b.• wade. The stattiment so correeted
wiii b. found iii Ow, Appendix.
The .:rrefir produo.d by these correai6ns upon
Ow result tilit ,hewn, is an addition to the excess
of Limn-go in the spill) tri 91,3391; The-gross execs.:
of
.the charges beyond the amount of the territorial
re; 610064... which most have been defrayed limn the
fund's, will then be tuuud to have been
•
• The amount which' lstdia is considered to have
di,hiirsed on accouni Of the commerce, and in im-
mediate supply of or return to the concern in Eng:
land, faints a leading feature in the application of
the' extrAordivary funds.
Toe omoinercial charges notadded to the invoices
have been ,hewn to, have amounted, during the
period in question, to the sum of 3,056,25 H. As,
upon, the inspeCtion of tint 'account, it has been
found to require corretilion and adjustment, another
account is ambled to the Ap-,)cli 'ix., by. • w Bich the
atoo.,n‘ of these charges apt ears to have been
2,01ti,t2791. These charges comprise the si4laries
and allto.vatices of the Ro,trd of Trade at each of
the- Presidencies, and ithir subordinate offices of
a -description strictly commercial, with liaise of
the aurungs or f.tictcries 'where the itivesiments
lire provided ; sod also the charge. of the
w.4fehouses, or the departments where the
geed; eipcytetl trout England to India are depo-
titcO anti,ho'd.

Boaril of Trade at Bengal, superintends'
the provision and sale 01 the two important
attar It.s of Internal trade whirl) the Goveitintent
of India pie,etved excitisicly fur the benefit
of tic State', viz.. salt and opium. This Board
has likewi,e the control over the greatest part of
the departinent of the costning'; it itmilikew,se the
d'redion of- the Marine, which branch may per.
iph, from being principally of a commercial de-
seri;,tioo, be consideied as falling within the sphere
of its iii:inediate duties. '[ho Board of Trade at
Macitits miperintends a stnill .part only of the cuti-
wins under that presidency. With respeM to the
Zoarit of Trade at 'Bengal, a question might arise
whether, ,under the circumstance °, the extension
of duty that took place in the year 1793, when the
the trade , in
.•salt and opium,
superintendence of
from which the:average annual gross receipt in the
Ott', e last years, amounted to 2,32,0001. and.of the,
cogent-6s Amounting to nearly 300,0001. was coin.
mitred to it, the expense of its establishment should
be considered :is wholly attaching to the commerce,
or a part should fall as a charge upon the territories,
with the revenues of which these articles are classed.
on this point your Committee observe, that the
charge s of
,provision, manufacture, transport, or
sale, attaelting to th?. salt Atil'opium, are inserted in
rritorial charges ; in like minuet are the chargcl
(1 the clistotn-liouses. The iluties of the Board of
.Trade are metely sUpetititeud.oice or cuntioi.l.
The s&.aries the members, in dr,. year 1792,
ptevirais to the tran‘fer of tlie*e di.ties, itinoutitt
20,3601. and in the year 180910 26,5201. The
ot.inher of the ltiburbers hat nut been increased ; :
and the, new' duties have not in any way atreCied
taw subordinate offices under them °I a commercial
The advances made .for the purchase of ,invest-
ine_ota for copisignment' to England, are a very lul-
1-Am-taut part of the application
,of the extraordinary
font!'., The, amount• is stated to have been
i 6,038,2661. Although it might be inferred, in
an abstratt point of view, th ii. the amount of these:
irldvarn es. waS principally supplied by funds derived
immedi tt.-ly -from England ; your, Committee are
- fa; retteosive that the question-, es to the particular
• part 'of the extiaordinaty funds, from which the,
er.mmetce w=l4 supplied.„. whether from money rail.
ttl on loan 'Lin tutu i,or from aids raised front 14u-
. ca pilot, under the circumstances of the yeatii
Witien the advances were, made, marl of t Ito nature
of t, system existipg in those years) he fia6„l4c.
tortiv decided, without all cxamittat ion to nitric
till-
• mot,- than is requirl d the übservationi proposld
t be made on the ..subje4 in this part of the

Report, .
The slpply- furnisl.ed by the several Presidencla
Scttleasvnts in India to-the F.tet" ory at Canton,

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