tivated by Mr. Campbell

or purchased from the
natives.

Grant of land for the rearing Failure.
of exotics, and experimental

agriculture and horticulture,

to Mr. Meyther.

Grant of lands for indigo Going on.
works.

1

Grant of lands for indigo Ditto.
works.

regards

as

cot

ton; abandoned as regards cinnamon,coffee, and nutmegs, owing to the acquisition of Ceylon.

Establishment, under com- Successful
mercial resident, of planta-
tions of cinnamon and nut-
megs, and coffee plantations.
Introduction of the cultiva-
tion of Bourbon cotton.
The Bourbon cotton has
succeeded; the cinnamon
and coffee culture has been
abandoned. The Bourbon
cotton cannot be greatly
extended; the plant thriv
ing only either in a peculiar
soil or climate; the latter
most likely.
Grant of land to Mr. Young,
son-in-law to Dr. Ander-
son, and afterwards to Mr.
Hughes, for cultivation of
cotton manufacture, of in-
digo, &c.

Failure as re-
gards Mr.
Young, Mr.
Hughes going

on.

Successful, it

concerned Mr. Brown.

A lease of village and grant
of land to Mr. Murdock is believed, as
Brown, for various purposes,
rearing of pepper, &c. en-
tailed much correspondence
and discussion.
Grant for the erection of a
saw-mill, and advances on
the Company's account by
Governor Duncan.

Experiments, successful efforts
of Europeans.
The introduction of the po-
tatoe into Mysore. It has
become an article of export
to Madras and elsewhere.

Failure, with much loss.

of European

peach, strawberry, and other
fruits.

Introduction

fruits, &c. on the mountains
of Neilgerry.

The introduction of Bourbon
cotton.

The manufacture of indigo in
an improved process from
the cold infusion.

The introduction of all sorts
of articles manufactured in
tin; now a most extensive
native manufacture in every
large town.

A canal dug by Mr. Cochrane,
opening a communication
between Madras and Puli-
cat, highly successful.
The improvement in stamp-
ing instead of painting cot-
ton goods, and introduction
of improved patterns.
An improvement in the ma-
nufacture of steel.

The cultivation of coffee is
spreading in Mysore and
Bengal, it is said.

The cultivation of oats in

Bengal and Behar.

Silk at Bangalore.

Indigo in Tanjore, Salem, and
Tondiman's country.

Now Sir, as your partizans may not be satisfied with the foregoing table, nor with my referring them to the efforts made by the Company during the last and present century, in sending out and employing Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Jones, and others for sugar manufacture, coal mines, &c., I will quote other testimony equally conclusive as Mr. Hodgson's. Mr. G. Mackillop, a free merchant who resided eighteen

years in Bengal, says in March 1832, "So far as the East-India Company are concerned, it appears to me that every facility has been given to the trade with India calculated to promote its increase."

Mr. Ritchie, a free merchant of Bombay, on being asked by the Parliamentary Committee (7th March 1831), “if the free trade was molested or impeded in any way by the authorities of the East-India Company, so as to make any interference of Parliament of service?" replied, on the question being repeatedly put to him in a variety of shapes, " I am not aware of any impediment whatever which we labour under that could be removed, except taking off the duties." These duties, although trifling in themselves, Mr. Ritchie subsequently stated were all taken off by the local authorities, and approved by the Court of Directors. Indeed, so desirous were the Company's Government "to remove even the appearance of preference and favour in the Legislature," that a Regulation was passed by the Bengal Government, a copy of which I have fortunately brought with me from India. The following is a verbatim copy:

A.D. 1829.-REGULATION IX.

A Regulation for rescinding some of the Rules of Regulation XXXI. 1793, and the corresponding Rules for Benares and the Ceded Provinces, and for placing the Commercial Agents of the East-India Company on the same footing towards Natives of the country as other persons.-Passed by the Governor General in Council on the 9th June 1829, corresponding with the 28th Jeyte 1236, Bengal Era; the 22d Jeyte 1236, Fusly; the 29th Jeyte 1236, Willaity; the 8th Jeyte 1886, Sumbut, and the 6th Zehijja 1244, Higeree.

Regulation XXXI. 1793, and the corresponding enactments for Benares and the ceded and conquered provinces, were passed for the purpose of prescribing rules for the conduct of the commercial residents in their dealings with native weavers and others employed in the provision of the investment of the East-India Company: those rules were then required no less as a safeguard against abuse of power by the commercial residents and agents for the Company, than for the protection of the commercial officers against fraud and embezzle

ment, and for ensuring the execution of the contracts entered into by these officers. At the present day the same reasons do not exist for prescribing by special regulation, the course to be observed in respect to contracts entered into for the provision of articles of the Honourable Company's investment: it has accordingly been deemed expedient, in order to remove the appearance of favour and preference in the legislature, which the existence of a special enactment of the kind is calculated to excite, to rescind the provisions of the existing Regulations giving such a preference, and to leave the commercial residents, and other agents of the Company, to follow the same process of law in the enforcement of contracts and in their other dealings with the natives of the country as individual traders. The following rules have accordingly been passed to be in force within the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort William, from the date of the promulgation of this Regulation.

II. Sections II. to XVIII. inclusive, of Regulation XXXI. 1793, with the explanatory rules of sections III. and IV. Regulation IX. 1801, extended to Benares by section II. Regulation IV. 1805, also the corresponding sections of Regulation XXXVII. 1803, for the ceded provinces, are hereby rescinded.

III. First. Commercial residents and other officers providing articles for the investment of the Honourable East-India Company, or otherwise employed in purchasing or procuring goods for purposes of trade, shall sue and be sued, and be subject to the process and jurisdiction of the civil or criminal courts of the country, in the same manner as the agents and factors of any other merchants, saving always the privileges and immunities they may enjoy as British subjects; and subject to the rules and restrictions contained in the general regulations respecting suits conducted or defended on account of the Honourable Company, or otherwise in their public capacity.

Second. Native workmen and other persons, weavers, silk-winders, &c. in the employment of commercial residents, also persons under engagement to deliver articles to the commercial officers of the Honourable Company, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, subject to the same process, civil and criminal, of the courts and public officers of the country, as other natives living within the jurisdiction of the said courts and public officers respectively, and no distinction shall be made in the form and manner of serving the process on them.

IV. Modification of the rule contained in Section III. Regulation II. 1814, it is hereby prescribed and provided, that when a petition of plaint against a commercial resident or other commercial officer amenable to the jurisdiction of the court, shall be lodged in any court of civil judicature, notice of the same shall be sent in the manner pre

scribed by Section XIX. Regulation XXXI. 1793, to the said officer, and a copy of the same shall be forwarded to the Board of Trade, who shall inform the court within six weeks from the date of their receipt of the petition, whether the suit shall be defended as a Government action, or at the risk and cost of the officer sued. If no intimation be received by the court within the period stated, due allowance being made for the period occupied in the conveyance of letters to and fro by the public dawk, the case shall proceed, and be carried to judgment as a personal action against the commercial resident or other officer sued.

I might, were it not unnecessary after citing the foregoing regulation, adduce the testimony of Mr. Bracken, Mr. Mackillop, and other free merchants, to shew that the commercial residents of the Company have not any unfair advantages over other persons purchasing in the same market; * I shall therefore pass on to glance at the East-India Register for May 1832, to see the number of merchants under the list of European inhabitants in Bengal alone.

Is it not

I find on enumeration that there are two hundred and seven merchants' names in the Bengal list! strange, that none of these two hundred merchants complain of the "barbarous cruelties" to which the Company's Government subject them? that none of their numerous European assistants have ever yet uttered a complaint? that the many hundred of European indigo planters, and their hundreds of European assistants, have

• In the documents laid before Parliament is an extract of a letter from the Court of Directors to the Bengal Government, dated 6th September 1813, in which the following expressions are used: "We cannot omit expressing our expectation that all our servants shall conduct themselves with liberality and candour, and act up to the full spirit of the Legislature, so that if the traders should be disappointed in their views, they may have no ground for imputing their disappointment to any deviation on our part from the principle upon which the trade is opened to them." The Court in all their despatches invariably desire, that the "private trader, as well as the Company's commercial agents, should have every practicable aid and facility in obtaining the regular supply of their investments, according to their respective engagements with the producers." Appendix to Report from the Commons for 1831.