the Japan trade was shewn to yield a nett profit'óf 200,000. florins j that
with regard to the West CoaSt of Sumatra the revenues had hóen made
to exceed the expenses,"and the pepper collected in that neighbourhood.left
still some profit to the' Company. -
• With respect to the institution of public sales at Batavia.for Japan copper,
spices, .and sügarj 'ön the introduction of which, i t was supposed the
establishments in Western India might be for- the1 móst part reduced, they
were of opinion, after deliberating with the’ Council of India, and after a
personal inquiry into the actual state of the private trade at Batavia, that
chiefly for the want'of an adequate means among the purchasers suehjsa&s
were entirely impracticable, and that it would therefore be preferable,' after
making some partial reductions in the expense, to continue the establish-
ments in Bengal and the Coast of Coromandel,-biit that> Cochin
Malabar CoaSt inight, perhaps,-he advântageofisly TaBandonéS.% |
, .ïoi determine the 'mode is- which - the 'trade with India should-in future
be conducted, these -Commissioners assumed a-general calculation:of. the
receipts and disbursements which - would occur at home and* abroad, -on
the supposition that the Company-should, in. future^ • navigate'with hired
vessels only, and that all marine establishments should be abolished^ ' The
result of this calculation was in abstract as foÛbwâ. The eétiniate may- be
«considered as;affording an: interesting.view of the hopes àndiprospescts which
were at that time'entertained-of thé resources of-!tfce'Eastern Islands;
! The whole estimate was framed on the principles p£ mörtöpóly, and with
a view to an incrëâsfe óf - the’ trade ,ön the oûe hand, and a • reduction of
expenses on the other. The quantity of : cofifed’ stated • ah eighteen' million
pounds, wasbalcuMed ^oh--tire^odace« %Öiëh m i^ t be ‘expected after
two years., In the calculation, of thé quantity of'pepper, an augmentation
of i,500,000- pounds beyond the produce of : foe preceding1 year was anticipated,
from the encouragement ‘gives «'tö'"'^ growth1 óf that article in
- Bantam
.. », This is the factory which by the recent convention-has been exchanged with England for
the Island of Banka.
Bantam and other parts .qf Java. With,regard Co (he sugar, ..circulated it
eighTOiillions of^pounds for t|ie«ih.oine cargoes, it is stated, that the «actual
id i f e a s te ; *
• From rBatavia-at that'time afnoimted },iffioo^oop lbs.
. From «00,000 - *
s From other ports in Java :—^_^■..•....:.i.j...;_:.‘rrr:rrf;rj ^;JJ-Jj 7pp(Vooo
: ; 7 ^ o o j 6 q i b s J
i Supposing therefore ‘thédiomé cargoes_—7_I__— .„y^OO/OQC) lbs.
' TheiiAbnifni’ ;
F o i £ j ^ a ÿ - £ 3 ^ S ^ 2 ^ ^ ---- 900,000 J
For.thje consumption óf the Company’s own éstâblish-
7Thë quantity" required would-be-: „12,600,000 lbs.
Or 5,100,000 pounds more than the actual -produce. The whole of thafc
quantity, however,'the Comnii^ioners,,relt coBfidept might be produced in
three years, "by encouraging the manufacture i n She Easterh Districts of
Java^ 'Among the retrenchments was a tax upon -the salaries of all civil
servants, which- reduced the average salary of each to; the sum of fifteen
Spanish dollars"_per month. >
i % ; ‘ E stimated.