THE

POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, & FINANCIAL

CONDITION

OF

THE ANGLO-EASTERN EMPIRE,

IN 1832.

POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, & FINANCIAL

CONDITION

OF

THE ANGLO-EASTERN EMPIRE,

IN 1832;

AN ANALYSIS

OF ITS

HOME AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS,

AND A

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION

OF THE

DOCTRINES OF FREE TRADE AND COLONIZATION,

WITH REFERENCE TO

THE RENEWAL OR MODIFICATION

OF THE

HON. EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"The Past and Present State of the Tea Trade of England and of the
Continents of Europe and America, &c."

LONDON:

PARBURY, ALLEN, AND Co.

LEADENHALL STREET.

1832.

TO THE

PROPRIETORS OF EAST-INDIA STOCK.

GENTLEMEN:

THE deep interest which you have at stake in the prosperity and continued connection of the eastern and western empire of Great Britain, has induced me to do myself the honour of dedicating to you the following pages.

The experience derived from passing one-third of my life in the Asiatic hemisphere, as an officer in his Majesty's Service, or as a private individual; the knowledge obtained by visiting every quarter of the globe, and nearly all the foreign possessions of this country, and the relinquishment of my profession several years ago for the purpose of