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gant import duty was laid upon its introduction 

 into Java that its manufacture insuntaneausly 

 cea^€d. It will hardly be credited that the Ne- 

 therlands government imposed an import duty 

 of eight * guilders at Java upon gam brer whose 

 market price at ilhio was ten, provided it were 

 brought by Dutch, and of twelve, if by foreign 

 vessels. This exorbitant ta>c appears to have 

 been laid on under the hope that, by carefully 

 excluding all other gnmbier from the J a van mar- 

 kets, the government could obtain ^a large price 

 for its own, as the Javanese would submit to pay 

 eJEtravagantly rather than be deprived of what 

 was, to them, aneseential article of subsistence* 

 But the administration appears not to have taken 

 into calculation that there is a ne plus ultra point 

 in taxation^ nor to have foreseen that w^hibt it 

 thus maddened the Javanese into rebellion, it 

 destroyed the commerce of Rhio against whose 

 gam bier and pepper the only market it possessed 

 was effectually closed, 



I will illustrate this by two Tables of the Mo- 

 nopolies, or Farnas of Rhio, the first embracing 

 from July 1 8 : 9 to December 1826, and the se- 

 cond comprising from January 1828 to Decem- 

 ber 1831. 



« SAO gvuld«ra »re e^>l to «De buDdrt»l SpanUh Do^i. 



