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guaranteeing an interest of four per cent, on the paid-up capital. 

 In its early history the king was compelled to make good his guaran- 

 tee, but after 1830 the affairs of the company prospered. Large 

 quantities of merchandise, suited for the different markets of the 

 world, are purchased at the various branches of the trading com- 

 pany. The East Indian products are generally sold at the peri- 

 odical sales held in Amsterdam, Eotterdam, etc. Some idea of 

 the extent of these sales may be formed, when it is stated that 

 the busiuess of one year (1872) reached nearly $28,000,000, repre- 

 senting the sum obtained for the coffee, sugar, tin, dyes, rattans, 

 tobacco, cotton, nutmegs, cassia, camphor, fine woods, etc., sent 

 from the East by the company's agents. The present capital of 

 the company is $14,400,000, with its affairs in a flourishing condi- 

 tion, the American branch contributing largely to swell its income. 

 The following record gives the quantity of Java coffee sold in 

 the Netherlands by the East India Company from 1751 to 1794 : 



Year. tf. S. lbs. 



1711 



1713 974 



1713 2,933 



1714 3,783 



1715 1,734 



1716 4,464 



1717 10,066 



1718 14,464 



1719 30,818 



1730 43,661 



1711-1730 110,893 



Pioula (136 lbs.) 815 



Tear. U. S. IbR. 



1731 3,330,909 



1733 : 4,669,546 



1733 1,779,644 



1734 3,753,319 



1735 4,374,310 



1736 4,466,197 



17.37 4,949,091 



1738! ' 4,558,843 



1739 3,998,433 



niO.'.'.'.'.'.'. 1,051,538 



Year. V. S. lbs. 



1731 137,312 



1733 13,308 



1728 79,808 



1734 1,463,685 



1735 3,786,930 



1736 4,7i9,912 



1727 4,578,464 



1738 4,456,633 



1739 3,649,435 



1730 3,148,349 



1781-1740 36,831,708 



Piculs (136 lbs. ) 270, 747 



1731-1730 35,033,635 



Picals (136 lbs.) 184,063 



Year. tT- S. lbs. 



1741 1,554,567 



1743 1,470,837 



1743 4,739,173 



1744 4,779,039 



1745 3,366,358 



1746 3,310,766 



1747 4,413,980 



1748 3,434,288 



1749 1,983,940 



1750 1,999,907 



1741-1750 39,951,845 



Pionls (136 lbs. ) 230,334 



