526 Report on the manufacture of Tea, $c. [June, 



necessary, in justice to all parties, to know if Muttuck is, or is to 

 become, ours or not. The natives at present are permitted to cultivate 

 as much land as they please, on paying a poll-tax of two rupees per 

 year ; so that if the country is not ours, every man employed on the 

 Tea will be subject to be called on for two rupees per annum, to be 

 paid to the old Bura Senaputy's son, as governor of the country. 

 This point is of vital importance to our Tea prospects up here. Many 

 individuals might be induced to take Tea grounds, were they sure, that 

 the soil was ours, and that they would be protected and permitted 

 to cultivate it in security. 



In looking forward to the unbounded benefit the discovery of this 

 plant will produce to England, to India, — to Millions, I cannot but 

 thank God for so great a blessing to our country. When I first disco- 

 vered it, some 14 years ago, I little thought that I should have been 

 spared long enough to see it become likely eventually to rival that of 

 China, and that I should have to take a prominent part in bringing it to 

 so successful an issue. Should what I have written on this new and 

 interesting subject be of any benefit to the country, and the com- 

 munity at large, and help a little to impel the Tea forward to enrich 

 our own dominions, and pull down the haughty pride of China, I 

 shall feel myself richly repaid for all the perils and dangers and fa- 

 tigues, that I have undergone in the cause of British India Tea. 



Jaipore, 

 10 th June, 1839. 



Art. WW.— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



{Wednesday Evening, the 7th August, 1839.) 



The Honorable Sir E. Ryan, President, in the chair. 



Read the Proceedings of the last Meeting. 



Read the following letter from Professor Wilson : — 



Library, East India House, London, Ylth April, 1839. 

 Dear Sir, — The continued serious illness of Mr. J. Prinsep, and the uncertainty of 

 its termination, render it impossible to communicate with him on the affairs of the 

 Asiatic Society, and I must therefore trouble you on a subject on which he wrote to me 

 on the Society's behalf sometime ago. Under the authority I then received, I appli- 

 ed to Sir F. Chantrey to furnish the Society with a copy of his bust of Mr. Cole- 

 brooke, and of one of Sir W. Jones, from the head of the statue in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral. Both have been prepared under his superintendence by a sculptor of great 

 merit, his pupil Mr. Weekes, and are nearly completed. The cost is severally sixty 



