Hints for an Answer to the Letter of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East-India Company, to the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, Dated 13th January, 1809 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... in almost every traffic established on the face of the. globe. ', .. With respect to the Americans, they owe their ad vancement and success in the Indian trade to the trea" ty made with them by our Government in 1 794, to the belligerent state of Europe since that time, and, " above all, to the neutral character they possessed, which enabled them to navigate more cheaply, more " expeditiously, as well as more safely than our mer- " chants or the Company could, and to supply many parts of the European Continent and of South . America, to which our ships had no access. These, " with the increase of the consumption of eastern " commodities among themselves, are the true causes f of the growth of the American trade with India; and even the abolition of the Company's privileges " would not have transferred the share they acquired " of it to our merchants, because it could not have lessened the advantages under which the Americans " then carried it on, nor have gained us either the S supply of their internal demand, or admission to many ports which were open to them. What the " Company could do, in the way of regulation, to " reduce the inequality between the American traders ' and our own merchants, you know, Sir, was effected, as soon after the expiration of the treaty of 1794 as " His Majesty's Government thought expedient." Among those foreign merchants, into whose hands this. trade. has fallen, the Americans are, unquestionably, our most formidable and active rivals; and the Directors feel it especially important to shew, that the intervention of that enterprising people into F. the the commerce of the East, has not been owing to any f erroneous policy on the part of the Company."--Several European nations having (we are informed) from the...