Star.
London, England, 1825-03-26 00:00:00

Costatertze.
G. G. Larpent. EN.
Z. Macaulay, Esq.
Henry Pownall, Esq.
W. F. Reynolds. Esq.
Anthony Robinson, E.q.
Thomas Sturge, Jun. Esq.
Joseph Trueman, Esq.
-Henry Weymouth, Esq.
Siotreas.— Sir P. Pole, Bart. Montan, Free, Down, and Seat;
artholornew-lane;and Messrs. Dreamasond, and Co. Charing-(boss.
nounroas.—lneasrs. noon and Prestos, 29, Coleman street.
listarraay.-.-Jabs Dumps, Ilsq. IS. King's Arms.yard, Cole.
snairstreet ;--to Munn an sontassnleatitms, and applications for
Shares, may be addressed.
THE ohj-ct of this COMPANY is to prom,te,
within the Ikitish Dominions, the growth of the several ar-
ticles of TROPICAL PRODUCTION, by means of FREF.
LA SOUR.

With respect to Indigo, this object has-been already accomplished.
It was once produced solely by the labour of slaves in the West
Indies and America. In cooseqoence of the application of British
shill and capital to its production, nearly the whdle of that article
which is now cousurned in Europe, amounting in value to about
Your Whom sterling, is raised by free labour, and almost entirely
in British India.
A similar effect might have been expected with respect to Cotton,
had the same means been employed in the same quarter to extend
its culture and to improve its quality. This, however, has nut been
done; and therefore the Cotton Trade of odr Asiatic Dominions
continues to labour under many disadvantager. Such, nevertheless,
was the impulse given to the Importation of East India Cotton, on
the opening of the trade with that country, that in a few years its
price throughout the world was reduced to nearly half its farmer
amount.

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(In this extraordinary fall of price, the Cotton of India, which is
of the lowest quality, was neglected, and an further atteities was
paid, by Europeans, either to its culture, or to the inspnemenlekeffi
its staple. Had a century coarse been pursued. it MOO be
doubted that the present alarming increase in the price admit Miele
might have been prevented. It is now the more important to prln
vide an effectual renotsly for such an inceneenience ; and far this,
India seems to bold out the only certain and permanent resource.
The official value of the Cotton Goods exported from Great
Britain in I see, amounts to a sum exceeding Thirty Millions ster-
ling. The via/stingiest and progressive prosperity, therefore, of the
vast interests which are connected with our Cotton manufactures,
and which obviously involve most deeply the interests of the nation
at large, requires that a vigorous effort should be made to enlarge
the importation, from British India, of Cotton Wool of superior
quality, if possible, to any which is now grown there. Without
such au effort, our manufacturers are likely to be reduced to very
serious difficulties from that enhanced price of this indispensable
article, which must be the effect of an increasing consumption with-
out a corresponding increase in the supply ; while a new impulse
will be given to the extension of the Slave Trade and Slavery its the
pienessious of Foreign Nations.
It will not be denied that much may be done, by an Associa-
tion like the present, to counteract these evils, by stimulating the
increased growth of Cciton in India, and by facilitating and en-
couraging the sunnitution of superior descriptions of that article, for
the low, and conioaratively worthless kinds, which are new grown
there. To this truly national object the attention of the TSOPICAL
Fact-LAlloun Compare will be particularly directed,.
Another main purpose for which this Company has been formed,
is to promote the production of Sugar by free labour.
The British Dominions in Asia are well adapted to the growth of
this article, and are capable of supplying it to an indefinite extent ;
but from the unskilfulness of the natives in the process of manufac-
turing it, combined with their want of capital, and the fiscal re-
strictions to which it is subject; little progress has hitherto been
made in introducing the Seger et that part of the world into general
consumption. If effectual means, however, were adopted of ob-
viating these disadvantages, the Sugar Trade of British Inifia could
not fail rapidly to increase.
The requisite means to this end have been fully painted out in a
small pamphlet published by Hatchard, and entitled ° East-India
Sugar; sr, an Inquiry sespecting the Means of Improving the
Quality and reducing the Cost of Sugar raised by Free Labour in
the East Indies." The statements contained in it are taken from
authentic documents officially furnished te the East India Company.
all by them laid before the public. That East India Sugar may
be made a profitable article of culture, even under all the dis-
advantages with which it has to contend, no one, who candidly ex-
amines the evidence there produced, will doubt. What is Chiefly
required is, that British intelligesee and British capital should be
employed to give an impulse and a right direction to the industry
of the natives ; by encouraging the more extensive cultivation of
Sugar ; by improving the mode and lessening the expense of its ma-
nufacture; and by thus, generally, raising its quality, and dindoish-
fag its cost, so as to resider it an article of more enlarged and more
beneficial commercial intercourse with our Asiatic possessions than
it is at present.
The TROPICAL Fana•Lanous CARIPAWf proposes, therefore, to
directs large share of its attention to the objects of promoting the
addration and manufacture et Biwa by Fan-Lamm in British
India, and of fat-Westin its admission into general me, not eul4l
the United Kingdom, but in all other parts et the world.
will be chiefly effected by introducing into India improved modes
of manufacture- and by making such safe and judicious advances
to the marnsfactitrers, and through them, to the adducers of the
soil, as may be necessary to promote the increase at production.—
Such advances as may be made from year to year, with the view
of promoting the growth or manufacture of Sugar, or of any ether
ankle of tropical growth, will be annually liquidated' by the cow
tiglonent of the produce thus raised to the Conspeny ; when
milts will arks from the usual Commissions en the saliva such
Poke% and the interest chargeable en its advances.
The seam which it is intended to pursue in this respect, bas had
the sanction of lengthened experience. It is precisely that coarse
kakit has been uniformly pursued in similar eases by the East
India Company, and by the Capitalists of British India; and whisk
has already proved so signally successful in promoting the said.
"deo of Wise and ha otherwise developing the faculties Oita
net and fertile region.
Proceeding en the data already referred to, and which staid
telly amdrated by (*bur satisfactory testimony, it appears that the
whels advance which can be for the production, for ens
apple, of a too a Sugar, watorZitefifront twelve to about fifteen er
sixteen pounds, eves on the sopposidea, which is a very imprebee
bk ape, that the mantafactuair possessed no tends if his ewe. TO
ensure, therefent, the probed= et 10,000 tin. of
the Mow limes that amid be earshot wootletalial
selell,ollo. dad it is obvious, that if the meccas el the Osequir
should be seek as may fairly be expected, k would be Meals
greedy SO idler its efforts. An tasal apply of Men gm
of Sugar at& be raised by every fresh advance of .111110,4100;
until a millicient amount of capital ahead be employed fully to
Int" *lt 111"4111 delisted for Sugar which may be anticipated
from the cendased allet et the dianiniehed coat of its production,
Ind„,tho isktotehlg ley of the Inspire.
he wadi seals* to the Commercial Interests
of Great sod nil mere et Inked, by the extensive crea-
tion of trek Imo 01 whin Mom, to meet the rapNly iner"°'
kg demand of eur nammeactures ea the pat at the immense popu-
lation of British Indlo—to say within of the benefits which would
thus be esoferred en that papulatieo--is tee obvious to seed to be
insisted mt. But it will wet be the least powerful reaminsentiaties
of the same to multitudes, that, ft it should soma, it meet
even teed to extinguish Slavery in Foreign as well as in
liriti.l2 . and JO put a final period to the Foreign Slave
TPidep itjtich still prevails on the coast of Africa.