the exports of 867,845 Spanish dollars. A great'part .of the .exports was
destined for Holland, .and a gréât part of the imports, came from Holland.
The imports from Holland were ; again re-exported to China, Japan, the
Spice .Islands, &c. from cwhich, and. from Bengal, .Ceylon, the -coasts of
Coromandel and of Malabar, and the Cape of Good Hope and>:_other
eastern countries,: the pother , shipments came, and , tô:, which the- 'other
exports proceeded. The profits on;the sale of that portion of thfe |rOtph£ts
of 1770, disposed of in the market of Batavia for the,_consuraption^hf
Java, are stated at 7,895 -Spanish dollars, so that, so far as, thte^import
trade was. concerned,' Batavia only became .the entrepôt between the mother
country and heftiother' possessions or stations of .commercial resort in j§|@
Indian seas. The exports of Java almost every year exceeded the'imports,
as will appear frOm official returns which follow.
YEÄSS." ' EXPORTÉ. C/ .: '’iMnORTS^- - EXCESS OF EXPORTS.EXCESS OF.IMRÖRTS.
Spanish Dollars.tF'j Spanish Bollafs. Spanish Bollars.'*, ;■[. - Spanish. PpB,ars. ..
J771 - -3,122,197 ’ 3 ,ll6 i3 7 4 5,823
,1772 2,909,371 . 2,170,741 .•73.8-,63Q
1773 3,193,912 2,789,869 404,043 :
1774 ^ 3,i84,641. —2,941,011 243,630
A775: - 3,0.83,773 2,692,420 391/353.
,177« -j3;319,'p70 . 2,305,228 -1,013,342
• 1777 ‘ ..3,139,678: 2,006/561 : 1,133,117
-1778 ^-2*440,042. 1 ^77-63674 • ‘ 663,368 , (
1 7 7 9 ' 2,274/308 .2,075,022 430^714
\i78S - . 2,788,702 .J j914,202 874,500,
1784; - '2,921,274 J 2,781,833 ■ 139,441..
17-85:- 7 ;ï .-:2,670,468 2,654,687 - t il5,781
,1786 ; 2,4.95,038 . 2,639,663 144,624
1787.' ‘ 37^2,634,049 ,.^2/506/267 . " 127,782 _______
-,17.88 t ,-3,700,209 , .'3 ,0 1 7 ,8 5 3 . .682,356 -.
i z m .2,936,240 ■- • 2,840,127 116,113
1790:- ,3,011,04,0 3,073,801 -7:,-62,761
‘M l9 1 ; 3,771,263 - - 3,098,■849-,, 672,414
m .m ■ 1,172,670 1,295^959 123,289
W ere was of course,' a lamentable falling 6ff in -the foreign trade of Java
W rthe '"edfitthnneement of,ithe ‘War* of'the’French revolution : some-of
the best markets were almost I M M and the intercourse with
the mother'country was nearly, destroyed. '/The'total o f exports to Holland
and her- eastern possessions,: from the-year, Itf 96. till. 1806, amounted m value
'to only 7/097/963 Spanish 'dollaWj. the imports to^S,073,894 Spanish dollars
I leaving a surplus ,'df ' 'exports/ of ti,0%4s,06gi.- Spanish dbllars. - The
Americans'began to.fte’querif-the market' of BataviaJn;i798F and through
them principally was the trade carried^ondtjlMhe conquest ,of^tlie-Island by
the 'British, except'during the tehort inteival o f the tpeaceiof Amiens. Ho
specie'(with which' Holland ;chfefly paid for her "eastern ybmmodities) wa?
imported from the mother’c'ountryfrom /1.795 downwards,- except^ during
£*802-3 and T 803-4,: during which! there- was only the very inconsiderable
sum Bf-about half a million ^upeesdmported. - t ' ■■
‘i-i-It-i£impossible'«to:convey a -just idea 1 ofl the native or foreign trade of
J a v a ,^without adverting to -the commercial and^dlitical 'state of <fhfe other
islands of the Archipelago. <Jf these it may- be' stated ■ generally, _ that the
’interior is. possessed by the natives, collected under leaders <who Have taken
advantage of'the great extent of the country, in proportion to its population,
ijtouender themselves independent o f the lawfuFsoveieign; • that the
e'oast?is'l decupled/1: in, ;many -.places, either-by pirates, by. some of^'the. ruder
tribes whom it' is/ dangerous’ to invade, or by adventurous traders, chiefly
M alays and Biigis. These traders-arrive; in well-armed vessels, which
rSpme of them remain to protect ^others travel up the -’country,-*# infre quently
to thevdistance of a hundred miles,- and at the change ■of-the ’monsoon
return to their companions,'charged either with plunder, -'Or'.with the
fruits of a commerce carried on with the native^ at an exorbitant profit.
The pirates, as they drive.ithe peaceable and; honest-trader from’the coast,
TecruiVtheir numbers from among the' seafaring men to-whom ,he used to
‘ give employment. Thedecay of' comineTce-is accelerated; and the: natives
retreat into the interior, where, for want of a market, they cease to collect
the fidh productions of their country; and rapidly sink into poverty and
barbarism. , The. sea and the coast remain auscerie o f violence, rapine, and
cruelty.■• 'The mouths of the rivers arte held ky lawlessAanditti, who inVer-
^fiipf the trade of. those; who inhabit their banks, and capture,the vessels-
* destined fox the inland towns :, the Fays: and,: harbours are entirely within
their’power ;':and in these Smooth seas’theyare never driven a moment from
their
State of the
Eastern Islands;