The Statesman.
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obtain tea and bring it to Europe, and smuggle
it even into our own ports? The political evils to be
apprehended were, that from the ruin of the trade
of the Company, the Government of India could
not continue on its present footing. The Company
were the feudatories of the nominal Mogul,—.anil
who could be substituted to them in this quality?—
The infringement of the prejudices and usages of the
natives, from the influx of strangers, would hest
the effect ef creating broils and sedition', and the.
aid of the native force might be lost. They must
lose the occasional aid of the invaluable auxiliary
marine -of 'the Company. The application of -the
merchants and manufacturers of this country, on
the ground.of right,, had no force. The territories
of Instils bud, nutiligon acquired by the arras, or for.
tunes of the Pititiorseri, And was •it not just, that if.
the territorrashacOlied by the Company were taken
from them, that this body should be inderhni6ed.—
• The Compinx.would lose the 'means of pajlng their.
.'dividend, which was guaranteed to them by the Act
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writ menti,ind they would lose all means of rewarding
meritoriooi servants. All this was t# be .done
'—lbough, there was no prospect of a sale of British
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The Ganges itselTAAr changed-it!' coool‘,ilet the
people of India itt Customs) RIO opinions
remained unaltered(;'' that which time and long
if events could not effect, the. Britir

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course of events could nt isli ;Aegis-
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lature by its solefiet was now to accomplish, and
the enemies of the Company were to work a miracre
that. Providence itself had never performed. There

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pod ;, but it in .their cliscactorg merchants they in.
tertered with his interest, the Hon.iblember !toped
the proposed regui*ons would give the Government
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au,thus kty to resist,to. __abuse _ a power,
which mast.in that case do the greatest mischief.
Mr. prORGE PHILLIPS complained of the
in,w7Slch questions had been put by Counsel to

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_Op" impracticaole, would lie .much increased.—fie was no greater fallacy than to suppose, that becath
bt it ifuty.te oppme this change of system, as there were .sixty tnillious of inhabitants in India,
there would consequently be sixty millions., f

,iiiimitswisies examined at the Bar. They were al.
:rsalsia.sitedsenerally .whether danger might not be
iliprehesdad 1' indiscriminate intercourse of

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this argilatier. wild:adduced the Company, who had
-existed, not oisly.withrout complaint, but with such
ncknowledged adtaUtage 'for so teeny years, as a precif
'of the truth of their position.' With regard to the
'trade that was expected to be carried on with radii,
fir Vr flit happy to see that the etidence -at the bar
4:nd dispelled the delusion • but whatever might
14. the • opiiietis itailiridutt; all concurred '5l-..one
tit.tt the habits and edstonts of the natives

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wished to have answered, either by one Di- . was a discovery of another account,- which made-41.
rectors, or by a gentleman who bad given so .much. necessary to deduct 4,300,0001. • and then this re-
i *of his time and abilities to this subject.-1 -I We under ductioe making the whole. tidied:las,. there wits min-
stood Mr. Tierney.)—lt was said, that the Directors. .tber discovery- of 1 300 0901-'-which
s s ought' to be had agreed that the out-porti should carry' out; aided, and so the acconot elood-al before. -What
any goods to India that they pleased, On coroll-', ,rimpeot couldhe paid to- mach, statilllente4 Must 4°t
tion of their, ,bringins back their imports fromtheetto Avery. pones' of common -mos, -conclude that time
to the pert or London. Now would not the p041.100' 'Aro a loss upon the wholvit,There wros a great deal
.danier, fp yrecisely the same on this suppe6itien, alit al.,pqaciicaljitikdool,cantppagillteditniteGeptiannis

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, the Noble Lord (Grenville) Ia
Noble Lord showed the inconsist.
.6 open the India trade, and denyin;
Chit* which was of so much conse-
' successful carrying on of that to
The whole system of the .Noble
composed of the most jarring etc.
respect to what he had heard rumour-
*ion on the part of lie Company to
traders by stomp ; if that was
irate traders would soon give them
knew they would soon drive the
the field by their superior economy,
red system of .carrying on trade;
,4 therefore likely that the Co in pa iv
.4404. 40 Ibis. Still he was aware, that if,
4hartereill Company • and Sovereigns of India,
q ..,:ere to-. make use of their revenues, and of
filet prollts they might derive from being possessed
of the Chins Trade, they would scvon drive all the
private Britabh Merchants out of the Indian trade.
He meant to throw no reelections on the Directors,
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or on tL iy in generif,lor believed that
the Directors were most conscientiously desirous of
having Invlia well governed, but still they could not
help showing wow and then Neil vi

it narrow views as com.
inercial amatspotiits. One argument used against the
free trade wu rather singe lay, as corning from the Corn.
‘nd that

„asets„,...ooditraGioditlee:ffualsdirehaiaet :the price of In-
result which
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a Cernmereial era...eaa financial error—but more , ay _ :y , . cu,, _ -.ea fromAtte..,i, ___ of pany, a,
mar for British pitch ;if this were true, why were aropeent Wiaktitiatalittlearof•lndia? And the att. , dia,produce. c
' larticalarly at tending to' the loss of.our empire in
tkkalelail ins, that It might. But when the de- as Sovereigns of that countrye,tbey Aught not '
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• not the Soith Sea Islands all filled with our saanu-
tnila •wiste enquired LOS', it 'wait found that the sir- :be proud of ?a-There was nothing but cumieifiolon.
” Mr. GRANT, jun.,leid, that the roost important (actures?--. why was not the.const of Africa crowded
setters, stud it iiissiiigUlarenough
comstancei and habits sit the natives• were such, and which could establish any
, part of ivi;lritarquettioll was that which referred : by our shipping recently employed in a traffic ordiathing like a fair price be.
' Aere intineiliatily.te tiMsittiation of the inhabitants : far. different - kind? Admitting, however, that e !the,
'r advantages in tarrying on the Inland trade so tweets buyers Vial
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'•.of Italia.' All 'parties agreed' diet their present con- ; most 'extravagant hopes or the most sanguine could •great, as almost to restrict the intercourse to the that • they shoulitldeprecatesuch a belieficiareircum-
airs 'via loreiystnesPeilltss ng place among •thr4r. own- subjects.
arid-improving; and no ;,be realized, the question still.remaitted, whether the coats; Thli was the opinion of Colonel Munro ; stance froin 'taki
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fend LoiatTeignmouth had also distinctly declared, —[Hear, hear 4—Much had been said of the ad-
!practice! had Ssatesnutu.venturea to assert that a sub.; happiness and prosperity of the people of India.
.. . •that he' thought- there was a police in India strong vaistageous manner in which India had of Tate been
'Versant' of the system that bad selong 'subsisted would ; Would be promoted ?—for.that was a point never to
be advantrigeouv.' The laot arus not denied, but the .
' be forgotten, for upon it ought to rest the decision
.enough to restrain a much grgpter number of Euro- governed ; but it was Imeausethe Corripanyi had been
eause of this felicity- wipiAiiiiigted,
.IhOadvocates for .of Parliament. Without meaning •to throw any,
_peals than were likely to reso there. It did seem under the influence of the Board of Controol, that
' ope:ting the trade,, coatending'tbat. it was to be. at. stigma upon the merchants of. Great Britain, he mast a; little strange, that Alla 25,000 soldiers constantly thieedvantageous system of
management had been,
• trlbuted, riot tb the judicieusadinioistration .of the; say, that the class of persons who would be emplo - resided there with imprinity, so much alarm and up- . derived. It was said, tharevenue would suffer,
'•ears'ilpany;-btit.to the wholesome regulations adopted ;ed to distribute our commodities, would in gene I; twehension should be iouceived from the introduc. because the introduction of private traders would in-
lay the Legklatere at home.. Itavould• *not be main- '
ibe bound by no law, and restrained by no mor tion of a few 'hundred private traders. Were the jute the ;lade; but British tredera -were not so be-
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;Weed; be. pretomed eveo.by them', that there was , principles; devoted to their own interests, they woul -.I latter so remarkable for a total inaPtitbdato conform sotted as to pursue a ruinous trade. 'With respect
'Hoes .1 ',any (Kn. radially e in the conduct of the ; mercilessly " wring. their vile trash from
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,to the manners of the people Avith whom theykad to to the loss of revenue from smuggling he had no ap-
-"oily, slim had beep at.least the instruments of car-'E hands" of the natives, and commit enormities, from( I deal ? Was it supposed that they would exchange prehensions. l'..et our commerce he emended as much
' A those regulations into effect, when it was al-,
*ad that the results had more than answered the ,
r, relation of which, siounintity not hardened by so ; characters with the
_former ?--tthrit the private •es we can, and let us Irestaii• that for a Correspond-
if • scenes would shrink in terror. lie was unwilling t. 4 trader would give up his characteristic discretion, ' ini extension of our revenue. :The evidence which
'ldiot; sanguine. .'lt •in his jude:-. expectations-call hack to.the memory of the house the shame afshis peaceable demeanour, 'hit persevering industry, ;had been produeed on this sebjaet was all derived from
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erroneous to assert, that in 1784, any im- this country, but he could not help confirming lis . for the impatience of restraint, the dashing irregula- : the • Custom-House ()dicers of the port of Lou..
partant variation was made, or any marked line of ; position, by referring to the endless miseries inflicted ; Tits', the quickness in quarrel, ..of the soldier ? He • don. But these Custom-How Officers might be in-
distinction was drawn, ,or 'that tire old principles upon the defenceless_ tribes of North America by ; eatertained a different opinion of athe...qualities of ! iluenced by opinions in favour of their' own .skill in
that find previously .ruled the conduct of the Di-, our greedy traders, and excepting in India, it might ! British merchants from the Gentleman wire -spnie the collection of revenue, end they might think, im-
yectori.bad been
:abandonedt although it was imPos- !be said with strict adherence to truth, that the inter- . last but one (Mr. Ile- Grant); who seemed to turally enough, that other Customsheuse Officers were
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Bible that they could ahen fora% soy settled plan of Aourseof. Great Britain with uncivilized nation', Itidl.think that they were 'only - rat. to' .be- slime mer- ; not swskilfoinalheatwelves. It was curiCus enough to
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Governments'when do &Isiah/nix:toted upon whiett ;been
to them a heavy and protracted curse; the Go- chants. He himself thought otherwise.. Many ridi- see persons who weredesieotif ralconhaing the returns
they Ootrld ex
~ereiSe their-ssoYereign .authority, and! vernment
..maiutainedno authority in those distant . culous itories had been detailed 'in -eiideridegfifiltre afro's( fodiato the
Passa.wf-lsofickni,.:.ctuai lig forward
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when anareliy ' and oentest, rafted thrall:hold their : settlements, and scclerutir fax ocfosque simul placeat. - daners and disturbances to folly trim the. admis- ! with Petitiposeferthe exclueon-of American cotton,
'dispiated territory:
•In 177-iand I.77,Lthe principles] The. Act for, the Abolition of the Slav: Trade, showed ' sion of British.merclitintain India. There wavone of thus placing ahem, under
.the necessity of procuring
of• Government had begun to develop. themselves,.) What Brithle traders unconfined by law had been, a person-who had gene',..nuf there 'with a bull-dog cottenliketa la 'ii, in the most expensive mat:ner.—
and. the correspondence between Messrs. Mimi s' and while it was a glorious monument of British jut-; that bad attacked a cowa •
'and another of. somebody `There 'was ttntt.ber argument on which much stress
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aid Francis proved that the administration of justwe'tice, it was equally a shameful monument of British I that had killed a Moakey, 'to the great ad nliyande oft bad been laid .by the Company, and that was that
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established • never wlne, injytiY. •It was a curious fact, that one of the 1)0- '-the,natives. But he conshleeed all such stories • large trodiee dation. br ate- Drift pf London would be
dattrpore.ablY discharged Akan by the 'Compiny is'. Hone froin Liverpool intreated the House, that the , all•such apprehensions' es merely idle. The private thrown eta Of taniiloar. • :.All:neforms were attended
RIP greduat Voirriatinn orn,this magnificent syste.tn,.,-camPPIY 4night be destroyed, that trangelllity tiementurer coal, not: be' supposed- tri itht
4go' to India rwsome temporiser sieifetai i 0 Vlt u changes: -of any
inctingratitude would_ never be more;signalty exam..; might be '
established in India by ' the advert- !twilit' a design to overturn tae -G ate' ietneet, and give •importance,'- whither from Arirt•fei 'puce, At from
rutified than in thecleatrection of those willing,.anii.' turers of the, out-ports: it was a Petition for offence to the inhabitants—a deeigli..•whith arrest be peace to worl b•it• he believed 7it bad always been
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and indefatigable servants of. the Crown of trade with India written in the blood of Africa.— : cOmpletely•subeersiee of his own interest..
.AS far •fouturthat the evils had been much less in reality
''Great Britain. If, indeed, to the Directors was not' The lion. Gentleman_further illustrated this part of' as he had read or heard, he believed the, coloniaa- i than in apprehension. Some eiiiii. might, no doubt,
to be "Great,
the whole Merit et arranging the . the subject, by referring the House to the barbarous tion or .India would be. a good ' thing had the :be eSPerielteed4rom ,tia's 'cbi'biliity' . , ,Ile but they would
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. plan, Os them, at least, belonged beyond dispute the '.conduct of the Spanish adventurers under Cortes, to ' authority of Mr. • Consort' for thinking so. :That not be so ,gteat 2S had been often represented,
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•' whole merit, of .lisaxecution : they had established-, South,America, and asked whether Parliament would • Gentleman had well obseryeal, that stow all. the for- and he had .uo •iloaltt (bat those noneenied in shit
~ eouficlence where distrust had . previously existed:: that such scenes should again be acted by the new : tunes made in luclia were- broogiat home to this Corm- trade at present would soon, find, tome other chart-
VII hed conferred rights on those before
:oppressed ; visitors of our Eastern settlements :.what were now try ; whereasif property was suffered to.be acquired I nel of employment. Uoleis some greater change
' with wrongs, thty bid given ;civil liperty to, these ' the boundless fields of our hopes, and our prosperity, ' in the soil itself, these fortunes would often be left ;,westaffncted than what was meditated by the Noble
' among 41Rom law and arbitrary power had been co. ; wouldtheobecome fields of blood and carsiage.— there. He would not follow the eenmple. of the Lord, the result; indeed, could be productive of two
" aideted.'quowymous. The• Hon. .Gentleman then I After calling upon the House to listen to the voice of 'Counsel for the India Company, who had enquired very great alteration. lie - believed that the Port of
t proceeded to notice tire appointment of Lord. Core. I the people .of India, who through him claimed a only what .advantaeeS•ii free trade was likely to give i Leedom itself would even:44 greatly benefited by,
:walli,s by. the Company, and to pronounce a veryl continuance of the blessings of the present system,
,to our eeportsio IE4 e .but lie would take the re- [the opening' of the thintra.fricie.• But when' they.
warm oelogiurn upon the character and administra. sol,contend _that our. exports from t. were sleliberatinie respectinithe welfare and the pre ; .
"Rower that Nobleman. From the Directors ernes l devolved upon the., Legislature, and concluded by 1, India might be er. est ristititlitskd. biked, that any •apastity of this country '0 gerle.raHt Mid of Silt
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miter! the matructions upon
.which he had acted; so.; etpressing his full concurrence in the resolution for two countries, se iffetent in cliptatts.,preductiona, •atli i' %bard people to India, a whole quarter of dye ,
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•liesieficjallytei India, and hai:ing been a patient .aod ; the continuance of the East India Company. . ; and drcertistances, aird let' under the withering re,- hglebe; wereihey :to :be governed•by the petty ia-
`candid, :ttroufah not a disinterested witness of the, Mr. HART DAV(S-considered Vie opinions en- I amine .of a monopoly, adaould• so-000ti:',/seariarrited •tertsits•ef the Portattsoirdes, and to consider them
protietliniS'Of that Court (he, Mr. Grant) hoped to 1 tertained on the subject of the East India Charter as h'it the ultimate of.mutual advantage. tit las paramount to the*.intireate.of both England and
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'lie forgiadni.if he maintained their rights and asserted a delusion, a guilt delusion. One cause which tercourse with.eaCh OW; appeared to liiin.eitraortli- Ladle? If the trade were to be 'thrown still more
•IfiArCiaiatf. le the indulgent attention of the Heise. I contributed to prOdaie this effect was the confusion oary,:eivf eolitiyy • to, Mk reasoning of
.all political ,open than Was proposed by the'Neble Lord, ?arlia-
-ink main difficulty that had startled theorists .upon i in. which the accounts Hof their civil ;and commercial limeys',. ae. well as to QV experience. Hit would meet ought, not to be deterred by the consideration
`tie Oehtliaft,Was the .disaesal of the
.patronage of establishments weat kept,. It woe the interestof'the . aide. confine. himselfata• the consideration
.of that ,of the mere •tocal consequences to the Port of Lon-
- the-coarfortny and it must be admitted that it would Directors ao represent tiris.intricaey is insuperable, r.aiticle of .Which he itid-,Weisi:lne‘atedge. ' .It was , don: • With -respect to the Aeration of the Charter be
Ile in wfse in the extreme 'to place such i*i.i
kije In- but it was by no.meaes so in fact. If these accounts said that the gurintity,Of Mattondinparted from India would Petit. to the Isieble I * sere' be' 'ter it might
I.lluefice:bl the hands of any Government. ' re ge- I were kept properly distinct,. and Once laid opera tha• did not adioit of increase, because superior cotton not be better drat' it shotald* not 'be granted for a
"beigtosacheme of rewarding the sons of officers who ; table, the delusion of their profits -would be SA, ripe i'avas grown In Georgia and South Anlerica. lilet he 'longer term than-ten years,.
'lindtalten in the service of theircountry, b yur
A I parent, that it would
.make.. the Proprietors them-;rdid not beliive the fact ;' he bad seen India cotion'eit- • Mr. GRANT, sen. hoped to be alloWed a few
`pointritents in India; was on many &omits (daring ; selves require the Directors to retire, from their '"dinened in' the presendof the most expeeie,need cotton ,•observatitaita. The Company had suffered great', by'
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peace elpeCi!alrY impracticable; even from' the pub- ; atom. The conduct of the Petitioners•from the out. ~apinnerss who had pronounced it equal, if not supe- , prejudices .arid IttiOepreseptations concerning their
',Ue echoola sufficient numbers could net be 'elected ' ports had been perfectly correct and liberal. . They ; tior, toGeorgia cotton. The superiority of the India affairs. , Pieclilhoright stare short time beck, that
'duly to fill the various situations of trust and emote- I had, firSt and last, professed their readiness to sub- i muslin' Was the cOnsequena of their preparing, the ,aireenwere immenwersionala tbe-Easit wiaildtt'irY
awl. •Thot,hireitarao•Ceeneeel,, arid the C4Consender , mit to any regallatioos -which might:be-thought see- -' cotton ?b' hard la.boktr....l4,4iLibt•-vaili to Filer Info' • 444 thrown open to •unlialited commercial enter-
-. lit'Cblef, who would have the nomination, must al- cessary to the political security of our empire. in' details.which could not..baingelt ie.. ttle:aaste• of, the -.prize, would gito..the means of repairiog all the riser-
'must necessarily be under the influence of Ministers, India. He himself had never been of opiuion that the ' House ; [hear, hear n jpo tt was prqopraoatatel that ,cantliediffinultiesaaltich hail been snstained by a con-,.
'and in the handl of vicious characters, this power 'increase of the trade to India would be immediate• but :'the process of preparing it.in this conatrys,l4 41 AI- .tineatal :war ra. nearly 2,5 years. fly lOng enquirl
-might be emploYed to•the destruction of every thing it was better that it should he progressive and gradual. :'chine, tore the fibre of•fhe'eotten in a-mannet:wlitO the truth had COOle:009 and .shown It to be imPra..,.‘
that was valuable. If the system were. altered, all - fie 'denied that the Americans enjoyed the advantages ;no after process could restore. If cotton was -pre- licable to extend our manufactures to -ntlY conainar-
its beneqrs Would be lost : the machinery might 'they possessed as neutrals ; our own merchants would pared in Nadia, and manufactured here; the spiubers able degree, by exportations, as had been erroneously
stand, but its activity and utility would be destroyed ;
.have fqual.advvttages,. if not labouring under. the
.would be able to produce such pules had never been •egneated. He believed the public were now satisfird
the fret-work of the grotto might remain; but the restraints imposed, by the East India Charter. • One seen yet; and at a minced rate of otteshalf the price. .on that point ; and this was really something gained
Waters that Boned through it, and gave it life and important source of an extension of trade would be ! The Hon. •Atember.here.oneme4 into .some calcula- levees-dee true knowledge of the subject. No doubt,
'luxuriance, would•bedeled and dissipated. ate went opened to
,us it. Abe importation of raw materials i tions respecting the price of iiihour and of cotton•in if the' other pointsarere fairly itiveftigaiid, theaame
On at some length to detail to the House the varioos from India, particularly of cotton, of which we at elndia, and referred tooe.oiinion of Mr. Lee on the
I.e6rielusioa would result. Allusions lied been mad°
Pobilu establishments erected in India by the. Company , present imported 7stith,s of all that we consumed.— 1 subject, who, be said, was a practical mon, and-wbo ,to opinions in a high quarter (Lord Grenville) to
'for the edrisafieo of the natives, and enumerated • The. same might 'be said. of • hemp and rice.--',bad for man ears conduoted.the largeSt cotton mse-- millich he looked with deference: lint as those oPi-
: the names of (Aire, Lawrence, and Coot", as exalted
,Theiet.was one of the Resolutions of
.which he die. ,nuractory in this island. ~ The diffetettcos of the,cire.sesions tended to inculpate- the notishict of the Com'
Characters ferniest under its auspices ;'he warned the artproved, viz. that 'relating to the team.giveu to the cumstances of Georgia end -India =explained the de- i Pasty, lie must. make. some oliservatiootrupon them.
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Howe against raising an *impassable fence round this China tarter: he alinuld, be ready
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of d ' any; mency le results ;,.Georgia had the advantages-1 Thp claim', Of the Commits; to their territories in
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field of glory and honour, and against breaking down :Gentleman who 4hOu propose
. , id pto have it limited, to lof a freearade,lndio volt Aepressed by a monopoly. [lndia was deenied in that Noble Lards speech, which;
. one system of partial exciasion for the creation of the period of the Occlusion of a. peace, on to the I Nat that he -*leant 40. thrbie any reflection on the asserted oiathatssubject what Parti•tment never had,
another of more perfect
.and general eeclusion.— i term of ten years. He was astonished to hear it ; servants of the East 'lndia Company ; but it wits rand .he hoped never would do; The Company's pros-
paving refuted settees 'Weeks made open the semi..psserted, that smuggling must succeed better in the' only' from the spirit of individuaketiterPrise ood'oPeo asasstoes ha •kleettleguired and extended under Par-
nary at Reiff :ad, lie adeekstd to the theories that ' out-ports than in Loudon, where goodmust be ' Crthat • • for 'beneficial 'l"` t 'sanction it ; '• I b the Cons"
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had been raised' plot , the Company. The most i much more easily secretid as well as sold; insomuch e fleets which he fled described. ...Mr, Phillips; •then pany's o•we treasuresonol at -their own hero& In:
formidahla war a declaration fetoded on the authority ;AO contraband articles were often brought from a•l.proceeded, to animadvert on. the inaccuracy .-ertlto along *series of. years 'had. Parliament arknowledgeei
'of the father of Political science, that a commercial , distance, at a certain • k las , forthe sake of the greater ' accounts presented 'bp the East 'lndia •Colipany.-s:, •it auxl*in .811 charters it 'had beep recogoized, art
'and political character should never. be united; but "advantages
which the metropolis afforded to this kind I.The profits of the Indio Traik for the last 17 years least in do case objected to,alfut reserved fnr Anne
lie ridiculed the inconsistency of the 'locates for' of illicit tffic. There was one question which I. were first stated at 2 700 B r d there" di ' •Id conscious, .r the %nes i°
40001. . uta tomer s 1. scusstoii., s.was filar i
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wail tried fairly, the Company would ',come off VP?,;
tbotigh it might 'not be sore of thfti,,ir the tIl•
cision were outdo .1)7 an act of' power. the hnpe'i.
bowler, tfial it would he settled only by the rotes
;of lualino.. Ito was .oteh en,rpriQed to hear from the
sumer rpiariet opinions thht mi4ttt lire been
,tai recloltifty or-forty years ego, grit-.were not at all
justitiqe by. the experience of the last twenty-114e
years. They ‘tre told of .the anomalous union or

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to any Other pertly the Vetted Ring. In the speech of the Noble Loordtwrae(ddGe:rheivdil-11-sdlcepo)ni.-;;Eitiii
mo.uaterhrtinic.o, ietstee..
_
. ~ ~,,, • „,.„•-..•• .. they not, therefore- „hy-"--reek-I..—thisce- sees. that spee ch then
I.Plictiipbeliei
the
VA:
, l' Vt * I.''' '' ' ilb
obtain tea and bring it to Europe, and smuggle were such as. to render them totally un 6
; all ow with the ho" of 8 . I He be. the tradmeii:otsotitheeC.whsel
could supply ; above all,
.the tenideteln I ...shxy,44, win np the only principle oft w they could eney of throwl
ft even into our own ports? The political evils to be and employing any commoditiee.• that. ...no,
rhos'
.
apprehended were, that from the ruin of the trade
I.
I aus c
cc
oewsmshfi
)iuctohsed.
of the Company, the Government of India could confined them witldit certain bele s noes o'• l'W. .
The company of the Willies in which European nationsindalged;— lieved it
•• tittle even the ingests;
qt,..Vzio
010. qjuoerditcea.
not continue on its present footing.;at to
, to, to give Mt , • South America- The whole s
were the feudatories of the nominal Mogul,--and like Its emblem, the mysterious serpent •ih a , rent Gen taut:
4 A ,-'ltr I Yh'eirl of the .Noble
who weld be substituted to them in this quality I— sluittbef, iterdeterg •46 SWAM s , y..
.1, semi
I d c soO'ceest ..Whal ch was t r r.. or a free •,..• • 081 meas. 'Whit respect to what he had heard ''''
• The infringement of the prejudices and usages of the gbring eyes an
~... . . i,.2 . st • . . . . _ _
o_,___.
rumour-
natives, from the influx of strangers, would have. ill is Oman(' pokolein its WO. Ih. tn sawn •:-• , • y ashcerned . t num te ed, of an intention on the
. part of the C
the effect ef creating broils and sedition', and the• years had revolved ho p
wit siri ' roduci4 inich ge In on ' . 1-a ~ wer for ilia 4.weGO - teihis that for ruin the prime traders b Company to
y comp eition ; if that was
WILL et, their object the private traders would soon give them
at ' elt Mi.. ti •le V set had. ht.a.. ati.,l tf :.
lose the occasional aid of the invaluable auxiliary ! establishments hatfcrembled inethedo_ai 7., .te iz„ •,VWlpli i g”,,5.... ou.. ,r-in tel enough of it. lie knew they would soon drive the
1 marine of • the Company. The application of-the est Princes of the earth bed been dethes ,
merchants and manufacturers of this country, ou kiugdoms!ubvertedtthetueble 1ient5.01414103.1.14 CittettlirkhteliewitAt) ;het the Batt India•Direc,t and • More •
esinproved system ,uf.carrying on tet' '
fled am& a d the unto of its tOts- '
• the ground•of tight,, had no force. The territories , famed in 'eastern story, tpl rpascal aware byt their• lave wfipetronage 1 and he tbotight it therefore
likely that the Col •c ;
tip,tny
of Itiiiis U(1,114440 acquired by the area or fore empire; even nature herself had, sustaieed..the melt than by their lor it -•A Her
el, hetoy **toe, Vegans, iruniddoottesort,to ibis. Still he was aware, that ''
. ., tat if,
- tunes of the Petitiotteri, And Wa6 •it not just, that if,' violent convulsiouse, e - -e.
.., . If dm/Company in the character of. Sovereigns aided Ips a dhartered Co • mpany • and Sovereigns of Itidia,_
• the territorthaegOlitid by the Company were taken " earthquakes hate raised... 9 Marra the,howilphrzalit, the Ovate trader, and seconded the • intesitions of 1 they .4:eco to. make use of their
I - from them, iet this body should be indernnified.—
The Companx.would lose the 'means of pajlng their e And tiffs the owtsataina mighty ams*entostibed.
Gang itself";ittochap Citi course but the od but •
- Government, he thought„they might do the greatest ' what profits they might derive fi retive.nues, and of
The tes
.
a ill: tilltAllera CUSiOIIII Bad 0 moms se •
tiered with his the Honollifember
dividend, which was guaranteed to them Os' the Act , People of Indr
e..,, 9.
time
S .nd pi long interest,hoped private aria* Merchants outof tl
the Indian trade.
of 1/93; they would not..be enabled to bnitlie in-theproposed regulations wouldgive the GovernmentFt i remained unaltered,. that which tlaee a.
..a_
veitments,and they would lose all means of rewardingof events could not the British
I course
~jnis. here sufficient a *had to ist.tho abuse of apower, or oft h '
effect, • . , 11....- ty tee ,e . t eLesnpany hi general, for he believed that
1 ' • Eisele meritorious servants. All this was to be .done i !Mere by its sole et was now to accomplish* and 1 which most.in that case de,thelltanteit mischief. i the Directors were most coil •c- ••t* Id '
s ten taus y tatrous of
• -
.. thisails there was no prospect of a sale of British ! the enemies of the Company were to work a miraele Mr. prORGE PHILLIPS complained of the having India well governed, but stil they could not
• *.'etexas ili lieliee and :though painggling, which _was ' that Providence itself had never performed. There. ;Wein
.veltieh questions had, been put by Counsel to help showing now and then their
narrow views &scor
1 •.'
, Ate' In4wactielble,
.ivonld hie Mash increased.---Ile '. was no greater fallacy than to suppose, that becalm, ithe witnesses examined at the Bar. They were ale mercial aiimitspolists. One •
at gu mem used against the
I .`tiltiagite it hij'iliit * y.to oppose t his change of system as . there were .sixty millions of inhabitants in India,. .ye ays ,assked generally .whether danger might not be free trade Waseathersingelar,as comitig
. from the Con'
• •
a cemmerchif trot a • financial irror—but more , there would consequently be sixty millions.of Cusio. ; apprehesjaa frwilieindiscriminate intercourse of pany, and that was, that it would reiee the rice *- of In-
.
•
Ctl' -A.
tticalarlf in
• we •• --•
gto the loss of-our empire in
-.•- , mers•for british goods ;if this were true, why were ' g
I not the Sotilli.Sea Islands all fitted with our ma u urnpnart. arida Alsis,nePtes. of • India? And the an- I'
i 'ght. But when the de., 11a 4,1. educe. ',Good God! waseliat a result '
es veteigns of that co which,
utitry..o Li b ,
te-y Aught, not to
Mr. GRA ,iin.,laid, thet.the most importrtet". recturesr—why was not the.coast of Africa crowded tea • elt 'we've Li 14
thiattUitituteris found that the cir- •be
. Proud of ?-,-'lltere was nothing but competition
part of ii 4;.. rirarquestioe was that which referred by our shipping rerntly employed in a ' traffic of a
i_ -1. • .
of di
eunistancei and habits of the natives were such • and which could establish any • •
, .., thing like a fair price be-
: far .different -kind. Admitting, however, that e take A
tit Ore intinethately.to tneilWatleil the inhabitants 'r advantages in 'carrying on the Inland trade so t weett buyers IA sellers, audit Was' siligiilerenough
most •extrevagant hopes or the most senguine could
. ‘ ''•'of Itillia.- All parties agreed that their present con- 'great, as almost to restrict the intercourse to the that • they shoulit deprecate. such a beeeficiareircum-
, Kan vi. a lie piy, prosper.%) and-improting; and no :.be realized, the question still.remanied, •whether the coast; .Thli was the opinion of Colonel Munro ; stance from lakillt place mot% •tlii4i• owo.subjects
!practical had Slatesnuto.yentueed to assert that a sub.; happiness and prosperity of the people of India fend Lohr.Teignmouth had also distinctly declared, —[Hear, hear -I—Much had been said of the ad:
• -seersien of the!yetem that had selong 'subsisted would ," would be promoted ?—for•that was a point never to that he' thought
there
e was a police in India strong eantageous manner iii_which India. had of fate been
7
, be adraierlgeous.' The loot .wfks not denied ' , but the .
be forgotten, for upon it ought to rest the decision
.enough to rain a much grgp er number of ,uro. governed , but it was biteause Abe Companyihad been
Giese of this felicity- was,dfipteted,
,thiedvocates for :•of Parliament. Without meaning .to throw any, .peats than were likely to rescirrt there. It did seem under the influence of the Board of Controul, that
' opening the trade,, coatendingthat, it was to be. at. stigma upon the merchants of. Great Britain, he must a little strange, that Alla 25,000 soldiers constantly toe'advantugeous system of
Management had been
•. • trlhoted, pot ft) the judicious.adiniteistration .of rho; say, that the class of persons who would be em to -, resided there with imptinity, so much alarm and op- . derived. It was said, the..revenue would suffer,
- • Conipany;-btit.to the wholesome regulations adopted ;ed to distribute our commodities, would in gene I; prehension should be tonteived from the introduc- because the introduction of private traders would in-
.
1 lay the Legistatere at home. It•wauld. not be main- '
e. •
rinciples ; devoted totheir own interests, they wool .
t , Weed; ho pretomed even.by then 4 that there was , P I latter so remarkable for a total inaPtitbde to conform sotted as to pursue a ruinous trade. With respect
. .
',any thing radically vicious It the conduct of the i mercilessly 44 wring 1 their vile trash fremsthe hate
,to the manners of the people Avith whom they to had to the loss of revenue from smuggling he had no ay.
'body, who had been atleast the instruments of car.' hands" of the natives, and commit enormities, from( I deal ? Was it supposed that they would exchange prehensions. fee our commerce he extended as much
`' rag those regulations into effect, when it was al.,
I relation of which 7 / characters with the , knmiteity not hardened by se termer ?—'that the private •as we can, and let us trestelit* that for a -corresport- . d -
' 31* •
4.01/4 that The results had more than answered the , scenes would shrink in terror. He WAS unwilling t4r trader would give up his characteristic discretion, ; fii extension of our revenue. :The evidence which
most srnguine. expectations. It was in his judg. call hack to.the memory of the House the shame
~of.,,his peaceable demeanoi4; his persevering industry, • . had been produced on this sebjeet was all derived from
I ,all,
derived
erroneous to asserts that in 173-1, any im- , this country, but he could not help confirming lis . ,
for the impatience of restraint, the dashing irregula- : the • Custom-House o.ficers of the port of Lon-
.
: pertain variation was made, or any marked line of ; Positions by referring to the endless miseries infilettd , lit'', the quickness in quirrel,.-of the soldier ? He • don. But these Custom-liouee Olficers might be in-
-1 ' distinction was drawn, ,or that the old principles upon the defenceless_ tribes of North America by ; eatertained a different opinion of *the-qualities of ' fluenced by opinions io favour of their' own .skill in
t ••I
that had previously .ruled the conduct of the Di- our greedy traders, and excepting in India, it iniget British merchants from the Gentleman wins-spoke the collection of revenue, and they might think, tit-
s)
t• yectnri.had been abandoned,
Ale that tliey could Ihen, form . any settled
-ove-ii ' ' .
C.. ;. meta, when do domiohinOxisted epee which
they. Ooold exercise although it was impos. !be said with strict adherence to truth, that the inter- last but one (Mr. It.- Grant); who seemed to turally enough, tit
. their- .authority, andat other CustomAouse Officers were
plan of .course. of. Great Britain with uncivilized nations, hid I-think that they were -only - rat. to' .be sties mer- ; net solkilietwo.theinwelves. It•-Was curious cu enough to
.., . .
been to them a heavy and protracted curse; the Go- chants. He himself thought otherwise. - Many ridi- see persoes who weredesitetti.olconhiting the returns
: vernment
,maintained no authority in those distant culous stories had been detailed In •etideride%fifillie afroist tWdia•to
' when analtay. and contest raged throughout their settlements, and sceler Ws far ucfrisque shout placeut. deniers and disturbances
... ,
• : n 7:72 and 1 . the principles The et for, the Abolition of the Slave Trade, showed - 'ion of British.the Passeof-Isoinkni,_-...ctiming for enrd
to folly trim the. admis- ! with Petitipes•ferthe exclipien- of American cotton,
n India. There was•one of thus placing *ens, under
.the necessity of rocarin
'disptited territory 1 I 77;A P g
of •
Government
had begun to develop, themselves,.l What Orielsle traders unconfined by law had been, a person-who had gene' Out there ..with a bull-dog cottoftelheito la is, in the most expensive muster.—
.
: .
:ma the correspondence between Messrs. llastir .
' and while it was a glorious monument of British jus- ; that had attacked a cowl 'and another ef. somebody , There 'was engther Orgorrletit on which much stress
d Francis proved that the administration of •ustice' Cie, it was equally a shameful monumemt of British 'that had killed a monkey, to the great had j . ~
was it that time regularly
dOttipore.ably di4charged titan by the '
the Armload Voiniation of ,this tea
established • never votes, ilfrny• •r..tinliyande of ; had heels laid .14 .the Company, and that was that
It was a curious fact, that one of the Peii- 'ethe :the, But lie cghsldeeed• all such stories..and • large tiodiee ()UMW lo thes Perft of London would be
Company in': tions front Liverpool nitrated the house, that the , all •such ppprehengoits 'es merely idle. ThOprivate tlitoirn put of* emitioir. • :Alleeforms wire attended
gnincent system,,,-CamPanY -might be destroyed, that trangoillity 'id-rentuter coda, not: be` supposed- Ici,4re to India rwithisorne tempottwrovityranst --ult changes of any
intilagratitude would_ never be more:signally esem...; might he established in India by 'the advert- !iwitit a design to overturn toe -Gore' iptnerit, and give •importance,-- whither from ewer le 'piece, Al from
. ' rified than in thetleatrection of those willingeanii; turers of the, out-ports: it was a Petition for offence to the inhabitants—a &opt:which elitist be peace to war.; bet he believed it had always been
.... .
at, and indefatigable servants of. the Crown of trade with India written in the blood of Africa.—, eompletely•euhversiee of his own interest..
.AS far -feI:MN-hat -the evils had been
.Much less in reality
.
- .;sGreat Britain. If, indeed, to the Directors was not 'the
lion. Gentlematt.further illustrated this part of as he had read or heard, he believed the, cOlonisa. i than in apprehension. Some evils nuke, no doubt,
• to he attributed the whole Merit 9f arranging the . the subject, by referring the House to the barbarous tion or India would be.. a good 'thing, .lle had the Ibe eaPerielseed-lrnali this "chahilks* but they would
.., .
. plan, tis them, at least, belonged beyond dispute the econduce of the Spanish adventurers under Cortes, to • authority of her. Cotborn. for thinking so. ;That i not be so ,eteat In had been often represented,
whole merit, of its'execution : they had establishier, South,Aincrica, and asked whether Parliament would • Gentleman had well obseryesl, that stow all. the for- and he had .no •iloAlit that those doneerised in the
eeefidence where distrust had . previously eeisterl,". that such scenes should again be acted by the new
4' tunes made in loclia were. breeght home to this *II- trade at ptesent would soots, find, tome other chart-
lbw bedc.onferred rights on those before
.oppressed ; visitors of our Eastern settlements :.what were now . try ; whereasif property was suffered to.be acquired I net of emPloyment. Unleis sortie greater change
.• with wrongs, they bad girth civil liperty to, those the boundless fields of our hopes, and our prosperity, " in the soil itself, these fortunes would often be left ;,weseffected than what was meditated by the Noble
' among WAciat lab* and arbitrary power had been coil- would.thenhecome fields of blood and carnage.— there. He would not follow the eaample. of
.the Lord, the result; indeed, twilit be productive of n"
a▪ ideied.'Synneymous. 'The Hon. .Gentleman then After calling upon the House to listen to the voice of Counsel for the India Company. who had enquired very great alteration. lie believed that the Pert of
t proceeded to notice thb apPointleent of Lord. Corn. the people .of India, who through him claimed a only what .advantageiii. free trade was likely to give !.Leideteitself
of
even-be greatly benefited by.
* :wattle hy. the Company, and to pronounce a veryl continuance of the blessings of the present system,
,to our eeports in (w t tig ) :but he would take the re- be opening, tif the thew .trade. But when they
warm .eologiorh upon the character and administra- •be adverted to the weighty responSibility that now verse method, and,contend Abet •our exports from {..were deliberating respecting:the welfare and the pre 0
'
1 •lion- of that Nobleman. From the Directors ems l devolved upon the., Legislature, and concluded by i India might beictettlylliitleitted. biked, that any i.apesitY of this country 'in general, gild of ail/
t . •-
miter! the leptructions upon
.which he had acted: art.! depressing his full concurrence in the resolution for two countries, so different id clinietis.,productions, knditibnref people to India, a whole quarter of this
'beneficially, to India, and hiving been a patient. nd i the continuance of the East India Company. - t and cfrcittiistance and lint' under the withering re- -glebe; :werwthey :to .be wo
s, verned-by the petty in-
"Vaielid, though not a disinterested witness of the, Mr. lIART DAVWconsidered the opinions en- l' ambit of a monopoly, adaould. so-000ti:',/raviaeriied •tereets-ef the Port etLonden; and to consider them
s• ••• 't -• •
prod:edit of that Court (he, Mr. Grant) hoped to i tertained on the subject of the East India Charter as .at the ultimate point of mutual advantage. to lus amount to the:haste:oB.ot both England and
tae fore* n if he maintained their rights and asserted , a delusion, a gresp delusion.. One cause Which 'tercourse witheaCh otivir; Appeared to him.ei,traordi- - India? If the trade were to be -thrown still more
i. •
• -thAr•elahat. -to the indulgent attention of the House. I contributed to produce this effect was the confusion i • . • 'ruf * at. • to, thereasuning of all political ;;epen than Was proposed by the'Noble Lord, Parlia.
nary,.a co city . . ,
• I ,•
-vie mai difficulty that had startled theorists .upon •in which the accounts of their civil- and- commercial *mars', as well as to QV experience. He would meet ought not to be deterred by the consideratioo
. Vileleeidi'eti,e\vas the. ispOsal of the
.patronage of establishments weeeltept... It was the interest otthe ~dhiefty writers',,
himseltftis. the caesiderethan of that ,of the mere'.
local consequences to the Port of Lon-
, . .
- the-conipany,.:ied it must be admitted that' t would Directors to represent thicktricaey.. is iiesuperahle, rill-ale of .strhich. he laid, ,ihrist•lne‘vleige. .It was , don:. With respect to the •clirmtton of the Charter he
Ile itiwfse in the extreme 'to place such i*li.i
hijr in. but it was by no .means so in fact. If these accounts isaid that the quantity, of cottonihnpOrted from India would Petit-to the isleblelserxi nix° 'ter it might
I.llueheti.bs the hands of any Government. '' le ge- I were kept properly distinct,. and Once laid upon the-;- did not adieit of' increase, because superior cotton not be- better that •it should' not .be granted for a
~
4iier'posachemo of rewarding the soils of officers who ; table, the delusion of their profits-would be so 191), *as grown la. Georgia and South America. ant he 'longer term than-ten years,.
, ; .
1 "lindlelten to the service of their country; bykap-
, . • • •?
I parent, that it would
,malse. the Proprietors them- did not believe the fact ;'he he bad seen India eotton'.ex- • Mr. GRANI', sen. hoped to be allowed a few
- ponstMents in India; was on many leccionts (daring ; selves require the Directors to retire from theiisitn. 'rimened in' the presence of the most expel:le:need cotton ;- obserrathans. Thd Company had suffered greatly b!"
liii. peace elPeCialXY impracticable; oven from the Pub- ' ations. The conduct of the Petitioners.from the out.: spinners, who had pronounced k oral, if .not supe- , prejudices .erril, laiseepresetttatiotts. concerning Hick.'
',Ue aehoola sufficient numbers could net be-selected ' ports had been perfectly correct. and liberal. . They ;''rior, to Georgia cotton. The supOriority of the India affairs.. Pinplithetaght some short time back, that
41 'duly to fill the various situations of trust and emote. I had, first and last, professed their readiness to sub- ; muslin' was the consequence of their preparing, the -them were immenatersgionsin. tbe- Elia f whicb,rbY '
• -.. i
it swot. - Tim taltaireaeoe.Ceesseeel,, arid As Ceram' oder , mat to say rogotatio!ya -which mighthe --thought 'tee! cotton 21r hard labokir....l4,4iLiet•wi, .to Filer Into ;4eleg thrown open to -unlialited commercial enter-
- in'Chlef, who would have the nomination, must al- cessary to the political security of our empire in ' detaila..wliich could not,,be:tiNeli iii, the,tattle • of, the -.prize, would giee.the means of repairing all the mer-
• .details,: which
'must necessarily be under the influence of Ministers, India. He himself had never been of opinion that the ' Mouse ; [hear, heur 91,0 it was proper,to iitate, that .cantiledillicultitalliich had been sustained by a coat-e
#s land in the handi of vicious characters, .this power :increase of the trade to India would be immediate; but .'the process of preparing ft.in this cneetry,,bir,a imi. .tieental !war oL. nearly %,5 years. 117 'Ong enquir
'might be emploYed to the destruction of every thing it was better that it should he progressive and gradual. chine, tore the fibre of-the'cotton in amatinee.:wlitc)x the truth had come: out, and .1/hewn It to be imPrat
ir .1111
that was valuable. If the system were. altered, all -He denied that the Americans enjoyed the advantages ;no after process could restore. If cotton iirii-pie .usable to extend air manufactures to • any consider'.
its hen 1,•e...s would
be lost : the machinery might *they possessed as neutrals ; our own merchants would pared in India, and manufactured here, the spiiihers able degree, by exportation!, as had been erroneously
. • -
.i . stand, h destroyed • ,
.ha ye equal.adventages,. if not labouring under. the .would be able to Produce such yarn as had !lever been -evected. He. believed thepubliC were now satisfied
I at itgictivity and utility would be
the fret-work of the grotto might remain; but the restraints imposed by the East India Charter: • One ; seen yet; and at a reduced ratels( otte.half the price. .on that point ; and this was really something gained
l
•
• • ;
.•
fr Voters that flowed through it, and gave it life and important source eft an .extension of trade would be , ; The Hon. Meniher.here.,ensaned into •some calcula- r L towardse true knowledge of the subject. No doubt,
,t i _luxuriance, would•hedeled and dissipated. lie went opened to
,us le theitinpertation of raw materiels i lions respecting the price of-labour and of cotton•in if the other pointswere fairly invettigalid, the same
on at some length to detail to the House the various from India, particularly of cotton, of which we at!.lndial and referred to the, eiiinion of Mr. Lee on the i•cencluaioe•would result. Allusteas end been made
't
-; . 4 Pnblic establishments erected in India by theCoespany , present imported 7... tithe of all that we consumed.— Leubject, who, he said, was a practice! man, andwila',to opinions in a high quarter fltlrd (renville) to
r -fothe vile:ago° of the natives, and enumerated . Tbo. same might she said. of ' hemp and rioe...-- ',had for man y years conducted.the largeSt cotton ma-.which he looked with deference: lint as those opt-
; ~
l' 1 . - the names of P . thy , Lawrence, and Coot", as exalted
,Theist, as one of the Resolutions of .which he dis- y !Detector In this island. ,: The diffe*Ces of the,cir.etions , ' tended to inculpate- the cotatiact of the Corn- .'
, .. . 1 aaracters fr•roted under its auspices ; 'he warned the approved, v 4. that Wing to the teinagiveu to the cumstances of Georgia -and frsdia.eaplained the de. i !any, lie must. make. some observations upon them.
Hattie against raising an Impassable fence round this China Charter: hOslin Id• be d.. - .
u • read yto second an i fieiency of the results ;,,Georgia had the advantages] Theechim's of the Compete; to their territories in
. field of glory and honour, and against breaking doWn Gentleman who ehOu ' ' , fd propose to have it limited, to jof a freetrade,'lndie was ppressed by a monopoly lndia was deenied in that Noble Lord's speech, which
! occlusion one system of partial eeciesien for the creation of the Period of the Occlusion of a peace, or to the I Not .that lie -*leant ite thr4 any reflection on the [asserted finalist-subject what -Peritonea never had,
"further of more perfect and general e*clusion.— i term of ten years. lie was astonished to hear it ; servants of the East 'lndia Company ; but it was rand .he hoped never would do: The Company's pos-
aring refuted variolus cheeks made upon the semi- asserted, that smuggling must succeed better in the' only from the spirit of Individuaaeoterprise endow's 1-90846f1a ha .INeltilliqUiti'd ant) extended under Par-
*nary at I-hilt:Nl, he once to the theories that rout-ports than in London, where goodmust be Crthat • •
look r'beneficial .1 t it • '• I b the Cola"'
,s
•' othazard: I ..
`had been raised' against' the' Company. The most much more easily secretid as well as sold ; insomuch ; effects which he •had described... Mr,- Phillips then as 's own iteasuresoind at -their own n. i
;
t . /111 rormidobt6 wet a declaration foended on the authority 1,that contraband articles were often brought
of the father 'of Political science, that a commercial , distance, at a certain risk,
'mid political character shout
, d sever. be united i
he rid'culed tho inconsistency of the advocates for' of illicit traffic. There was
this argument' from tv [proceeded, to animadvert on. the inaccuracy -of' the a-long series of. years hail. Parliament arknowleitge4
n zed alt
for Abe sake of the greater ' accounts presented by, the last 'lndia Colispany.-- • it.; merlin . all charters it had been mpg; i
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but advantages which the metropolis afforded to this kind
.The profits of the India: '
freak for the last 17 years least in no case objected to,/ hut reserVed for font e
one question which he were first stated at 2 700,0001. "But afterwerds there • discussiott.. • Ms. as conscious, (fiat it the gores tot
a. who adduced the Corapany, who had ' wished to have answered, either by one of ti4e ix: was a discovery of another ncceuiit -which made U wail tried
-existed, not 4ly'without eiimplalnt, but with such ;rooters; or by a
. , , . Gentleman who bad given so much mummery to deduct 4 300 0001. • ,
and then this re- welt, thongli it migfitnot be sere of that,
.if the d.t.
ecktiowledged advantage for somany years, p a ass re f *of his tithe and abilities
;of the truth of their position.' With regard to the I stood Mr. T'
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to this sobject.—[We under-i ductiou making the whole. ridicut:eis,,. there wits ann- cision were made 'bianam of power. Ile I
terney.)—lt was said that the Directors! lbw discovery- of I 300 OWL' ..which anpet
ought' to be bowerer, tfial it would he sets led may by the rules
'trade that wss expected to be carried on with fsdls, had agreed that the
out- should carry `out' aided and so the aocossse,eloorl.as iefore. -What ;of •juitiee. Ito was .nuteh sorpriQpd to hear from tihe
lie wag beep to see that the evidence -at the bar ant
goals to India that they pleased, on coadk ,reapeet could-be
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• s no saner qusi it. • opinions alit T 1,!,.
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paid ess. gosh. statements). Ai t t -i t t' t 'to tare berm nin,l,••
• +ad dispelled the delusion • but whatever Might lion of tb ' eir,bringingback their imports from thew every.persess of comasnillaWir conchs& diet these ,tailietiobiety ar-forty years' ego, Ihkwere rot at all
We. tlip-oeiirintis ef individuate:, all concurred itv.. t the -:, one e t pert or London. Now would not the peak'.
t' 'Jets a loss upon the whele/..There .was a great deal jastitaftle by. the experjenee of (tie last twetar cu'e
~,,. 11•Zio, that the habits and castoms of the nat. da ' •ion or
: . natives . neer haprecisely the same on this sunpusition atiA *f
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could supply ;above all, the telietir4f 1'7,,,:x 7 4,..2. ' rl two up the only principle on w the, could eney of throwing 01
confined theni within certain bounds, nova ti',t -71, ,
. to, to give old • South America. T
of the luxuries in which European nationOodaigea ; Sieved il
04! tittle even the horse; t quence in the sue
like Its emblem, the mysterious serpent •ih a rent Gen NIL.
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steitsbef, itoileternail • 0,11 ghptlat s : )'. kir . ', A 'areas - hillvlP skit. Lord Opposite.was ,
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gibring eyes and crlinseo:crwst,...while .
. to 0 or e free 4; .D. yr* meads. • With rasps
inits 'amend poisoicio ifs feJ4p. , Th..
,s-th satal .: . ~ • y eofiornad • .reada. Re ed,. of an intention
years
had revolved witheui producing any ch ge in oft ' . 1-a,. wer for liis 4.viici, .10iivis that for ruin the private tra,
tite•maseert..of4ini Ipeapieto.- , . . . . was. nt, their abject the prix
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establishments had.cr4mbled infthedest ;" th Mighti.
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giggle ripmk WI beg' Alued out trim eel enough of it. lie 1
eat Princes of the earth had been dero hnedintrtheir It' lid would Ttol.retorfthis charge by saying ,compny out of th 4
kingdoms subvertedtthe *stable house al,liers siS (itVrAglirtlatliarailt) that the Bast India•Direc,i and ;more:improve
famed in Cistern. story, iiiia sunE agia the raw of its tihrs- . pascal reare ar their. lore effpetronage 1 and he thoght it ti
empire; even nature herself had sustained: tine
emost than by their love:either tiell
Of Asie;orogartfassans.-- 1. ‘FO/Ild.notUsoft Jo
violent couvulsions;-, -..-- - ~. .. ;•, • If dos/Company in the character of. Sovereigns aided Ips a chartered 'Con
" Earthquakes hate raisealu Heaven the. 'vale, the private trader, and seconded the • intentions of they leeto to.asak4
" Awl gulfs the mutmlitin's mighty miss entostibed." - Government, he thought,they. might do the greatest I, what pr at s
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