Star.
London, England, 1830-02-04 00:00:00

EAST INDIA TRADE.

Amongst the documents printed by order of Parliament,
r t the close of last Session, preparatory to the Inquiry to be insti-
tuted In the approaching Emotion. is the evident* of the Foreign
Trade Committee 01 1821. In the course of the evidence by Mr.
J. F. Mitchel, he said. speaking of the Island of Java. the East
India Company have no control over it, I believe. If le were
practicable to induce the Dutch Goveranwot to put our ships, len-
porting British cargoes into Java and exporting the produce of the
lialand. upon the same footing u their own ships, in return for a
sl-
miler contusion on ottr part in the ports of Asidia, or the ports of
this country, I think the trade with Java would be very myth he.
patted. With respect to what are called the Oriente, Irked% I
certainly ani of opinion, that a very coassiderabie trade might be
created, if those assistance. were given which are now wanting... 4
mean ports where our ships could land their Outward cargoes, and
purchase their homeward cargoes' with safety t such. tor instance,
as the island of Siticapore, in the Eastern entrance of the straits 01
Malacca Since the opening afforded by the last Charter, 1 base
frequently sent out patterns of the -various produarions of this coons
eel, to various parts of India, and to the Eastern Islands, with
which we b.4cl no communication before, merely to see whether
those things would answer ; and I have always found the Inquiry
satisfactory, and that there was every prospect of an opening ler
those commodities. I think, particularly, the cotton menu-
(acmes of this country ; printed cottons, white cottons, and
what are knows ice India by the name of pawn handker-
chiefs. The Malays wear this handkerchief round the bead;
and I believe the Amines of Java wear a dins of cotton (Wed
found the body, which has been ao well imitated here, that their
own native manufacture has been very nearly driven out, the coat
of the British manufacture being much kn. I have no other
knowledge of the trade carried ors by the citizens of the United
States with those island, than what has come under my observation
us a Bricsb merchant. I naves was engaged in any thing of that
kind myself; but while I was in India, the American trade wish
India and the Eastern Islands grew up from almost nothing to an
immense extent, and the British merchants always thought, to con-
sequence of the restrictions which then existed preventing them
from engaging in the same trade. The trade to which I allude
commenced irl **fly as the year 1800, and, .by the year 1810, It
bad grown to great magnitude. In the year 1809, when I was in
China, there were no less, I believe, than 80 Amnon° ships in
the port of Canton. Since the opening tinder the Oat Chapter, the
trade to India being free to British ships, the Americans have lost
a great deal of what they possessed during the former Chatter. It
appears likely to me that the Chinese, of all people in the world,
are the must likely to consume the cotton and woollen manulac-
tures of this country to tbe•greateet extent ; ales hatilwasemanu.
factures, such as cutlery, Jac.
The late Chalks Grant, Esq. in statements made by him to the
said Committee, observed, with respect to the natives, -Wilma bees
questioned whether the prejudices.against the use of our menufee-
tures might not, its time, be done away? But their prejudices are
not the only obstacle ;there are otherpowerful biadrauses—alininte,
taste, immensaial habit, inability. The' ,port cal the payola-
of India go more than half naked, live on rice, dwell in huts,
and do not probably, one with another, earn Infers than Si a
year.. The only article of our manufactutes which seems to be
particularly suitable to the Indians is cottpn piece goods; but, in
the striking description which the Reporter of the Aiengelientor-
nal commerce has made of .the glutted state of the Indian markets,
in respect to European commodities, po exception is made of the'
article of piece goods; and the Tables of the Causing Tisch lOW
Indict° the Eastward seeMloebow tbat.patt of dawn have been
re-exported. The attention paid to this article by the uativn bps
peen tube chiefly in places of trade on the sea coati. It is another.
question whether our cutup fabrics are within ti.e teach of the
easebody Of peasantry spread over the country ; and, perhaps, a
ON more important question, whether, as diesseal has already the
steam engine. and lies found .abundance of sal in its Lwn ter Nl'
toty. spinning mills may not at length be set up there, which mil*
-be imputed effeetually to supersede the we et Nouveau sown
.fahrica,..fintithat without any iptantal convulsion smug the manta
factarers these; because•the cotton fabtica of /kind, which were
he ogee a guatiespie uncle in Easeepsibeekig. beenesiapisissed tw,
tarter coesury by the British C01(9111. of the PeattraNi
al, fornwrly a very numerous class, have been driven wank
•sebeistsocsta other lbws.
.trf the Miklos which. the Commanders and ()attires
Ships are forbidden e

The new Governor of Cwba, General Bellido, will set out in a
few days for his post Three thousand men will go with him to
the Havansah. A corps of fifteen or sixteen hundred men Is now
forming at Seville for the Philippines.
The King of Spain has granted to Mews. Marcella, Caters, and
Portscanero, Spatiards, residing in London, permission to constt uct
an iron railway from Xeres to Port St. Mary. and from thence to
Rota. to be emended finally to St. Lucsr de Bartarneda.