A. D. 1792. 



I fhall conclude this arithmetical detail with the following 



Account of ibe EAsr-lT<iDiA company's stock l>j computation 

 on the V' of March 1792. 



^5^ 



Debt due by governrrient 



Cash 



New stock ... 



Goods sold not paid for 



Goods in England unsold 



Customs receivable on tea returned 



Net balances of quick stock, 



at Madras 



at Bencoolen (or Marlburgh) 

 Balance at S . Helena 

 Do. at Canton 



Cargoes afloat for India and China 

 Goods for exports paid for 

 Silver do. do. 



Advanced to owners of ships 

 Value of East-India house, &c. 

 Do. of vessels employed in England 

 Do. of dead stock * in India 

 Expense of French prisoners in do. 

 Do. of expedition to Manila 

 Do. of the king's troops in India 



Balance against tlie company 



^4,200,000 



443,737 



37,800 



1,122,533 



5.006,118 



21,621 



1.831,589 



142,355 



49,103 



550,205 



1,485,001 



395,991 



395,597 



96,970 

 329,300 



38,560 

 400,000 

 260,687 

 139,877 



21,447 



3^16,968,491 

 2,538,666 



^19,507,157 



The above accounts, all extradted from the Eaft-India company's own 

 official vouchers, furnifli a pretty good flock of information concerning 

 their affairs, as reprefented to the committee of council for trade, and 

 to parliament. We may obferve from them the decline of the trade 

 with India, and the great increafe of that with China, -which is fupport- 

 ed by the prodigious demand for tea in this country. 



The accounts of fales in India do not fhow the company's trade to 

 that country fo great and important as moft people, I believe, judging 

 by the vaft extent of their concerns, are apt to fuppofe it, the fales at 

 each prefidency being not greater than thofe of many merchants, -ware- 

 houfemen, and other wholefale dealers, in this country, which are man- 

 aged at a trifling expenfe : fo that, even, if they were attended with tol- 

 erable profits, but with alfo a certainty that no new channels of trade 

 can pollibly be opened, they would not exhibit any enviable profped of 

 the exportation trade to India. But, with fuch a dreadful flatement of 



* Though the dead stock is here valued only 

 at s^40O,00O, tlie whole money expeiided on 

 fortifications and other local property, was by the 

 last advices as follows. 



At Bengal - - ,^4,633,171 



Madras and its subordinate factories 1,806,1 16 

 Bombay and do. - ] ,726,393 



At Fort Marlburgh and do. 

 S'. Helena 



126,384 

 77,65B 



3^8,369,722 

 It is curious that slaves are comprehended under 

 the denomination of dead stock. 



