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INDIA., 



Travancorc. 



Imports iiuo 



Betel, skins, fruit, timber, drugs, pepper, grain, Piece goods, salt, cotton. 

 chauks. v 



Tranquebar. 



Liquors, naval stores, metals, grain, piece goods, Piece goods, grain, opium, sugar. 

 spices, dyes, mother-of-pearl. 



Pegu. 



Timber and plank, hartal, horses, pepper, coir and Piece goods, opium, woollens, tin, wine, grain, rum, 

 coir cables, wax, cardamoms, stick lac. canvass. 



hague, aji 

 cochineal. 



Penang. 



Pepper, betel nuts, benjamin, metals, spices, tute- Opium, piece goods, raw silk, grain, cotton, wine, 

 gue, ajia wood, piece goods, sugar, elephants' teeth, metals, iron, carpets, blankets, 

 chineal. * 



Manilla. 

 Nankeens, Japan wood, tutenague. Piece goods, opium, silk, iron and nails, glass ware. 



China. 



Sugar candy, tutenague, piece goods, camphor, nan- Cotton, opium, piece goods, pearls, sandal wood, 

 >ens, tea, vermilion, China ware, raw silk, cassia buds, shark fins, grain, saltpetre, cornelians, pulchuck, co- 

 tices, red and white lead, pepper, alum, tin, drugs. rals, rice. 



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keens, tea, vermilion, China ware, raw silk, cassia bu 

 spices, red and white lead, pepper, alum, tin, drugs. 



Isle of France. 



Piece goods 



Brandy, &c. 



Maldive Islands. 



Coir and coir cables, cocoa nut shells, cowries, salt- Grain, sugar, piece goods, tobacco, 

 petre, turtle shell. 



Elephants' teeth, tortoise shells, grain. 



Coast of Africa. 



Piece goods, glass beads. 



Commerce 

 with Ku- 

 rope and 

 America. 



The commerce of India is generally considered under 

 two grand heads ; viz. that which is carried on with 

 Europe and America, and the " coasting trade," or that 

 which is carried on from one part of India to another; and 

 from India to the ports of the Indian islands, China, the 

 Arabian and Persian Gulfs, and the east coast of Africa. 



The Indian commerce to Europe is almost entirely 

 carried on by Great Britain ; and, till within these two 

 years, it consisted of the commerce of the East India 

 Company. That which is called the " privilege trade," 

 established by an act of Parliament in the year 1793, 

 by which the Company were empowered to grant li- 

 cences to individuals to trade to India ; and, lastly, the 

 private trade, or that enjoyed by the commanders and 

 officers of the Company's ships. Since the trade to 

 India was thrown open, a considerable capital and 

 amount of tonnage have been embarked on it by indi- 

 viduals ; but the only particular respecting this branch 

 of the trade officially known at present is, that there 

 are employed in it upwards of 180 vessels, most of 

 which belong to London. 



The only foreign nation which partakes largely in American 

 the trade to India, is the United States of America, trade. 

 The vessels of the American states first appeared in the 

 Indian seas about the year. 1785. In 1794, Britain 

 granted to them, by treaty, a right to a direct trade 

 between their own ports, and through British India; 

 this grant, the troubles in which Europe was involved, 

 and the capture of the settlements of the Dutch, Danes, 

 and French, in India, by the British, contributed to ex- 

 tend and confirm the American commerce to this coun- 

 try. According to accounts laid before Congress, the 

 amount of Indian goods landed in the United States, 

 for re-exportation, was, in 1790, 2,000,000 dollars; 

 and in the year 1800, 39,000,000 dollars. In ten years 

 ending 1804-5, the Americans exported from Bengal 

 goods to the amount of 4,643,575, or^ on an average, 

 464,357 per annum ; and imported to the amount of 

 3,906,068, or 390,606 per annum. The following 

 Table will farther illustrate the trade between America 

 and India. 



In six years from 1802 to 1807-8. 

 Goods. Bullion. Total. 



Imports into all India 957,224 6,528,250 7,487,524 

 Exports, Do. 6,901,269 25,696 6,926,965 



In three years from 1808-9 to 1810-11. 

 Goods. Bullion. Total. 



351 ,.602 

 5,107,818 



4,531,253 

 9625 



4,882,8.36 

 5,117,443 



