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be confidered as dependent on the Crown, to be adminiftered 
by the executive power, as conftitutionally refponfible to Par- 
liament. 
Every precaution was alfo taken that the rights and privileges 
of the Eaft India Company fhould fuffer no infringement. The 
exclufive advantage of fupplying the Cape with India and China 
goods was immediately and unconditionally granted to them. 
And the regulations adopted in confequence, by the Earl of 
Macartney, and the vigilance that was conftantly employed 
under his government, prevented and defeated every attempt to 
undermine their interefts, and were produdive of a fource of 
confiderable profit to the Company. 
It was, in fadl, the well known integrity of his Lordfhip's 
character, and the able and decided meafures employed by him, 
on various trying occafions, for promoting and combining the 
interefts of the Eaft India Company with the honour of the 
Crown, and the commercial profperity of the Britifh empire, 
that determined the minifter in his choice of him as governor 
for this important acquifition : and his Lordfhip was accordingly 
nominated without his knowledge^ whilft abfent on public fer- 
vice in Italy. 
As little doubt was entertained, at that time, either by his 
Majefty^s minifters or the public, that the Cape would become, 
at a general peace, a fettlement in perpetuity to England, great 
pains were employed in drawing up inftrudions and in framing 
3 regula- 
