Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-08
TRADE oY THE INDIAN ISLANDS.

i lie EsCIuDu ~ he'''"''S % ~ "'N''luS
Thern's /" Memoir Of the Conquest 4
Java" take occasion to give al 'esbn
rate account Of the Trade OF the lrdia
Islsn,,s-fron which, as a mere artic.
of reading and entertainment, we shcVE
be disposed to make large extracts til
our pspe--nuch NOR. so, as we thinkt
will be highly interesting to man, Of OV
readers, a. merchant, and men OF bcs,
ness. whose enterprise is mainly directed
to the Eastern Quarter OF the GIObs,
pur ,uiug every tract which promises 10
lead to ne sources Of. profit, aid extend
the sphere Of t'.eir activity.
Salem Gazette.
That vast and fertile groupe q Islands
which lie between India and Gina. i
perhaps the richest and NEST luIuiOu,
region of the habitab!e globe AID be
greater part Of It's productions b@inse.
minent.v suited to the tas'e and wen, Of
all other countries seem, from tie NOS,
ancient times, 10 have found make
cr.extensive with he known world AID
to have excited, through lcng ere, q
ages, the cupid,ty ard ambihon, not st
t.aIers merely. bot Of the creates s:s'es.
men AMI conquerors. From The cas-
o. Alexander down TO those o. Boss.
parte, the commerce OF the Eastern "o'd
has been regarded as ore grand sOu7t:
Of national wealth and indHstry--he
central and primary region OF opliehce
and Iuxury-and the great fountain Of
public splendour end individual comfort
l. was ty the golden drOppings OF tbs
trade. strained through tie naTss and
Distracted channels Of Arab, and Eg,Pt
tina. the was'ed shores Of Italy, we're The
first stimulated to reproduction, after ii:
conquest Of the barbsrisns and II W"
thi, that revived, BY the wealth nEicht
poured upon Florence and Venice, The
slumbeTing genius Of Europe, AID re.E'a'
died from its ashes the lOhg eyhrGai'k.
ed fame OF liberty and tsste. II Sa
the attraction Of :he sane splendid cen.
merce thar gave its fr't memorable NJ
pulse 10 the spirit OF maritime discovry
opened q way 10 Vasco rorsd the Cape
Of storms. and led Co'un.bas, tough 10
an opposite direction, 10 the sill more
ercntf,I AMI magnificent discovery Of ).
mother world. IT. actual cBrc's too,
were long commensurate Nth the fl Is
ard expectations t. which it gave r.e.
Il created AleHsntria-it revived l'aly
it gave wealth. power. talent. AID 'ir.
tue u Portugal aud Spoip-and spread
through all Europe thai taste ter elegance
and splendor which is akin to still bgh
er refibement.-and is. at any rate, the
great spring Of meutsl activity aud on.
nipCtent industry.
Without pretending t. very com.
plele or minute enumeration. We may
Gb.erve, in the way q general deserip.
ton, that the lndian Islands trade with
each other-with China and Japan 9TH
what Dr.. Lcyden ilaes the Elirdu Chinese
nations OF the contiEcut, with Hinduism,
with Persia, and Arabia, ard tn Eu.
rope and America. Each ct these bisD.
chss of trade Will demand few ob'sr.
yations.
The population Of these Islands mas,
in a commercial view, be ebumei aied
as follow viz. the agricultural tribes,
who provide all the commodities not lut.
nished by the spontsrevas bounty Of IA.
ture. and Who as there are s,,icrly a1y
manual, tureys, may be reckOned the
most civilized of the native, /; the mari
time tribes the most turbulent aud eO,e.
prising-the savage, vino, I'LL they caa
b. tamed,ire oftencr destructive than ser-
yicesbIe 10 comTerce-srd tie foreign
set iers, who may be locked on a. the
b; okers md wholesale merchants in the
grea, traffic which is driven from one
end Of the Archipelago to the other.
Among the Agricultural nations may
be reckoned some OF the greater tribes
in the interior Of >umstra f; the people
Of Bali and Lomboc and, abne all, the
bulk OF the population in the fertile is
laud Of Java. The na,igators, or man.
time tribes, comprehend all the nations
which speak the Malay Language
and the greater portion q The pr
rited aud eutsrprising population Of Ce'
libes. The foreign settlers are lew
European, emigrant. from the maritime
parts Of coutine tai lndla-some sdven-
turous Arabs /; bu' above all, tie Chinese
the industrious and indelat:gsble CHI
nese, in a tropical climate at least, the
most productive class Of subjects when
any state can possess
The mare improved tribes, or those
fixed to the soil, supply the maritime or
less improved tribes, With such Proda',,
tons as imply superiority Of xiii snu