Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-08-17
The East India COMPANY.

This mammoth corporation IA thus
Oxen Of by the Christian Enquirer.
The stockholders Of this company have
yver much exceeded two thousand and
e capital stock. eli which dividends hive
'en paid, Mt the largest, has been put at
G.0O0,00n II hns been subject III Eng
nd, to the unsise management which
rRt always attend n company whose
5cklioldcrs Mud directors are constantly
Angling, and whose agents and field of
,erations are distant by half the circum.
renee Of the globe from the centre where
easures originate and besides this, il
rs had TO encounter the hostility ef the
hole commercial class of England, form.
" shut mp by its monopoly from the In.
an trade, while nj India it has ~contended
T existence on a hundred bloody battle
lids, with Dutch and French, and the na-
,e motarohies of the cast. But not.
outstanding all obstacles, it has expelled
II Dutch II has nlnihilatrd the power Of
e French in India-hap subdued one ma
ve kingdom after another its factories
I'VE grown into States, and these States
to n vast and consolidated empire il has
]aintainod n standing army larger than
tat OF amy European power except Rus.
n, ald varying, at different times, from
10 hundred and fifty thousand to two
indred and ninety thousand men it has
,nducted Rciges not lcss dreadful than
lose which drcnched the cities of Spain
b'ood, in the reninsu'ar war il has
orned imperial cities and fortresses almost
seoitd number. SO inrcRsant have been
q wars, that for a hundred years scarcely
day has passed in which the wild beasts
tho lunglea, or the alarmed Inhabitants
the hills, have not fed before the tl,un-
y Of the British cannon. Its b%ayonetR
ave broken the great power Of the wild
tahratta cavalry, Of the well-disciplined
luadrons of Mvsore. and of the fanatic
,urage of the Silks; it has subducd great
I'd warliko Kingdoms aud not only sub
lod them, but hns depcsed their sover.
gns, appropriated their revenues, subvert-
] institutions old ms India herself, recon-
rnctcd its laws and Jurisprudence, and
scr vast regions changed the very tenures
7 which the soil lie held its history il
III of vast enthusiastically of conaucst.
rinorrow of social regeneration ana in-
'ovement--of skilful diplomacy, of heroic
,hievemcnt, Of desperate valor. making
,od NIL DEFICIENCIES of NUMBERS aud re-.
>urces, and of names word renowned in
aiesmanship, and war, and literature, and
This company in England has been
imposed Of merchants and others who
ave liSad quietly, MS good subjects and
unknown aud unhrarl of; vet
Icy have appointed, and, Mt their pleasure.
governors general. who have ex-
~ India a despotic authority over
he fortunes of than ore hundred
illions OF people, which the monarch of
nginnd daees not exercise in his island
,maIn, Before its charter expired in
1t had suhaued nearly lhe whole
'mnsn'ar. from Cape Comorin TO the inn
'ssab'c SHOWS of the Ilimalava noun.
ins. And since then the career of con-.
has not paused. The cannon of
have burst open the mysterious
ties oil CHINA; she is trying now exneri-
in civilization among the savage of
,rreo, she has added the puniaub to her
apirc, and n thousand miles west of the
dus, reversing the course of Alexander's |
nquests, penetrating among tho wild and :
ar.ike tribes of Adghanistan, where she |
Il the ticrcest resistance; her unwearied
t,alions have reached the confines of
rsia, and the echoes of her advancing :
ans have startled the s~entinels who at !
kept watch ut the outpost of Rus. +
n power