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. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...it will hardly be denied, that it is fitted to be the germ of a great and perilous change in the state of that dominion, and the Indian system connected with it. This practice has been the main cause of the continuance of the clandestine trade. The continuance of the clandestine trade was one ground, on THE ...
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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. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...it will hardly be denied, that it is fitted to be the germ of a great and perilous change in the state of that dominion, and the Indian system connected with it. This practice has been the main cause of the continuance of the clandestine trade. The continuance of the clandestine trade was one ground, on THE COURT'S PARAGRAPHS. THE BOARD'S PARAGRAPHS. on which the Company were first induced to yield a material sacrifice of their privileges, and it still serves as a plea for further inroads upon their system; nor do we perceive any end of this plea. The ingenuity of those concerned in the trade may still contrive to carry it on, it may still be formed into a fresh argument against the Company's remaining privileges. The entire extinction of it would not, as far as we can discover, necessarily result from any measures within our competence; and this sort of reasoning, therefore, may be employed even as long as the Company have any thing to give up. la. We believe there are those, who greatly overlook the other considerations belonging to this subject, in the importance they attach to the increase which has taken, or, as they suppose, may take place, in the produce and exports of our territories, an increase, however, hitherto chiefly owing to the encouragement given by the Company to the culture of indigo and sugar. But unless such persons will also contend, that the medium of the Company, and all restrictions whatever v THE COURT'S PARAGRAPHS. THE BOARD'S PARAGRAPHS. whatever on the intercourse of the subjects of this country with In-dia should be removed (a doctrine which has but few avowed advo-cates), they will allow, that there is some point, at which enlargements of the privileges of individuals ought to stop. To ascertain this point has been...
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