Star.
London, England, 1820-08-02 00:00:00

FROM CHINA.

Specie -
china Ware, &c.

75,334
3,772

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
-
- - 15,115

Sundries, chiefly for European consumption 55,118

JAPAN.

77,106

50,233

Copper
Camphor
Sundries

91,440
7,674
1,986

101,100

Spanish Dollars 4.342,441
EXPORTS FROM BATAVIA IN 1770.
TO BUROPE.

Nutmegs, Cloves, &c.
Pepper - -
Coffee . •
JaEton Yarn
Arrack --
Tin - -
Saltpetre -
Piece Ouods -
Sugar, Benjamin, Drugs, Precious Stones,
Malay Handkerchiefs, and other Pro-
duce of the Islands - - -

CEYLON.

Specie -
Nutmegs, &c.
Coffee -
Japan Wood
Rice -
Japan C.lpper
Sundries

Nutmegs, &c.

_ .
Pepper
Coffee -

COROMANDEL

.

Japan Copper
Specie -
Sundries •

Mace, ke.
Sups -
Japap Copper
Cash
Sundries -

Cloves, /cc. -
Pepper -
Arrack -
Japan Copper -
Sundries

NALIA BAIL

79,312
263,798
187,996
3,529
10,479 ..
4,690
8,874
124,505
123,569

.I. • ..

BENGAL.

69,311

114,85!

857
22.8r2
957
14495
41,880
7;421

16,706
28,077
7,604

- 50;494
- 541,181
- 17,142

2,464
25,578
19,651
120,031
11.683

5,447
9.641
7,024
9,595
23,45

Cloves, acs.
&war -
Japan Copper
Sundries •

SURAT.

• 7,187
. 52,032
- 10.059
. - 18,P33

TO THE EASTERN ISLANDS.
PADANG - - - •
MALACCA.

Rice -
Iran
Stores, about •
Cash -
Sundries -

Cash -
saldri'es

Sktie 1
Sundries

Specie -
Sundries

Specie
Rice -

BANJER MASSEN.

. •

3,707
3,238

5,549

Piece Goods -
Stores and Sundriee

. ..

- 18,000
. 81,000
- 7,651

PAZ.ZMBANG.

TIMOR.

AMBOYNA.

Specie - -
India Piece Goods
Provisions and Stores

SPecie
Pim Goods -
Stores end Sundries

kV:Goods

Sundries

BANDA.

Cloves
Japan Wood

.

Sugar -
Rice -
Broad Cloth
Woollen Serge
Ounlets, he.
Lead -
Piece Goods

f -

'FERMAT.

MACASSATt.

JAPAN.

. : _

_

CHINA.

50,090
1,759

76,421
3,720
7,271
17,595

57,472
4,405
25,11 S

21,0110
WASS
15,U3

567,056

202,261

441,904

Gloves, &c.
Tin -
Lead -
Specie -
Sundries -

96,202
4,313
11,960

179,401

$5,542

711,- 561

4,137

115,596

51,759

2,082
6.720
10.966
32,757
520
7,309
4,468
1,038
5,442
24,621
90,405
11,674

44,482

111875

105,114

67,690

• -

- 2,647
- 192,900
- 3,868
- 630,496

11,911

S!,! 73

Arrack -
Piece goods
Rice w
Sundries -

129,002

3,047

133,8311

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
- 3,294
- - - 11,505
- - 3,719
• 7,557

WA=

Total Ezports . - rtlBl6l
It may be proper to observe, that most of the ar-
ticles mentioned in the above account, and particu-
larly those the produce of the Archipelago, are cal-
culated according to their actual cost at the mono-
poly !Rift at which the forced deliveries were fur-
nished to the Dutch, and not at the usual selling
price to the general.merchant. There the Nutmegs
are charged at 4 I:sth %livers,'the Cloves at,B 4-16th
stivers, the Pepper at 2k stivers per pound 014 and•

other ankles in proportion, which will account for
the low amount of the total exports. Of the pr‘Cts
which the Dutch derived upon the trade, it is Unne-
cessary to speak ; they are to be found in the history
of the Dutch East-India Company, and are too well
known, to require repetition here.
The followin4 is a continuation -of the amount of
Imports and Exports, extracted from the Dutch
books, and calculated on the same principle for tLe
subsequent years:
FROM 1770 TO 1793.
- 3,116,374
2,170,741
• 2,789,869
• 2,552,318
▪ 2,701,770
2,305,226
2,002,564
1,776,C74
- • 2,710,022
1,914,202
2,781,832
▪ 2,654,687
▪ 2,644,423
2,515,367
▪ 3,027,953
▪ 3,078,501
• 3,098,842
1,301,732
FROM 1796 TO 1806.
IMPORTS.
61,519
67,063
182,174
255 264
2u9,149
19'4,508
839 349
556,642
40:1,578
210,427

1771
1773
1773
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1785
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789
1791
17924

1806

EST nivre.
3,1°2,i57
2,909,371
2
3,184,641
3,083;7'73
3,319,0'70
3,139,678
2,440,0 i 2
2,279,308
2,780,7c:4
2,921,L74
4,670,468
2,495,038
• 2,634,049
3,700,209
3,011,0;0
3,771,4-:3

=rm..
325,673
220,292
367,935
656,669
336,799
304,392
292,754
1,730,1L7
1,203,698
1,079,662
577,512

Several of the articles of commerce require part',
cular remark.
OPtost.—When the influence of the Dutch was
paramount in the Eastern Islands, they were able to
purchase Opium at Bengal on their own account ;
this they afterwards retailed in the Islands at a very
great profit. It appears from their commercial ac-
counts for the year 1770, that they b?tight 3'2
chests of Opium for 96,301 dollars, which Is less th-in
a quarter of the price which has been obtained for It
since there has been a fair compethion. The annual
consumption of Opium in the Islands has only been
in the above estimate taken at 15C0 chests. By the
Dutch accounts in 1793, it appears that the annual
importation exceeded 2000 chests, and during the
I3iitish Government at Java, it often sold as high as
1600 aad even 1800 dollars per, chest ;—in the above
estimate it has only been averaged at 1200 doi%trs
per chest.
PIECE GOODS.—The English manufactures are ra-
pidly superseding this branch of commerce.
BRITISH MAN CFACTUR Es.--The Islanders hire
not that attachment to their ancient habits whch
characterises the Hindoos. On the contrary, they
have an increasing disposition to adopt European
fashions, comforts, and hinnies. In their purcha-es
of British manufactures, the 7 are limited only by
their means.

Smogs, itc.—The value which has been assumed
is estimated as the price for which they would sell
to the general merchant in the Archipelago on an
average of years, but when carried to India and Eu-
rope, they have been known to realize more than a
million sterling ; indeed a million was the amount of
clear profit which was estimated by our possession
of the Moluccas. The Spices as well as the birds
nests and tin, are delivered as articles of Govern-
Meat monopoly, and the price paid for the two for-
mer is almost too insignificant to be mentioned. Tl.e
tin (to the extent of 2000 tons), though a Govern-
ment monopoly in Banca, is delivered by free
Ci;i-
nese on contract, affording a fair price for their la-
bour, but yet at one-third of the usual selling pi ize
to the general merchant in the Archipelago, and less
than one-third of the amount at which it could Le
furnished from the English mines.
By far the largest and most valuable share of this
commerce is in a great measure it the disposal of
the Power in possession of Java, Banca, and the
luccas, and the other Colonies and Establishments

surrendered to the Dutch—it constitutes, perhaps,
two-thirds of the whole. Of the next, a considerable
portion, perhaps a sixth of the whole is at the dispo-
sal of Chiefs who have at some time or other, bound
themselves by Treaty to -admit none but the Dutch
to the benefit of it. The present validity of most or
these Treaties, however, may be well contested by
the British Government. *The remaining sixth of ti .e
whole commerce is unquestionablyopen to competi-
tion, and may therefore be called the independent tradr.
The foreign trade of the Archipelago has, from
the earliest period, been carried on at certain em-
poria, whither the produce of the Islands ris brought
by Chinese, Arab, and native traders. Achcen, Ma-
lacca, and Bantam, were the principal emporia,
when Europeans first visited the East. The Dutch,
in their more prosperous times, forced most of the
trade to Batavia, which thus became the principal
emporium of the Islands ; but the unhealthiness of the
place and the impolicy of the Dutch, had so lowered►
this port in the estimation of the native traders, that
in the year 1790, a large portion of it was removed
to the native port of Rhio, and the English having
ripened friendly communications with the different
Chiefs of the other Islands of the Archipelago, traded
to their ports direct. From the occupktion of Ma-
lacca by the British troops in 1795, the English may
be considered to have enjoyed nearly all the /vg-
them trade of the Archipelago, and by their clandes-
tine trade with Batavia and the Moluccas, to have
obtained at least an equal share of the limited trade
then attempted to be carried on by the Dutch. As
the trade of the Dutch still farther declined, that (A

the English increased, until, on the conquest of Java
in ISII, the whole fell into their hands,
We shall resume this subject as soon as we can
possibly make room for it, and point out some of the,
dangers to which we are exposed in relation to this
trade, of which the wily Dutch wish to deprive us.

The Literary Gazelle, N 0.185, to be puleli..hed
Saturday, the sth of August, will contain an Ac-
count of the newly-discovered Antarctick Continent,
the land sought in vain by Captain Coots--a corioels
Account of Abyssinia, by Pgaisca, seaman, rho
has resided there nearly twelve years--an interesting
Description of the Uatiditti in _ltaly, by Mrs. MAR!
GRAH4M—with the usual variety of literary, scicu•
tific, and anmins matter,