THE INDIA REVIEW 
OF WORKS ON SCIENCE. 
AND 
JOURNAL OF FOREIGN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, 
EMBRACING 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSICS, &c. 
REVIEW. 
Sugar, as to the probability of an im- 
provement in the cultivation and quality 
of, either through Europeans or Natives, 
in case of an increased demand: From the 
report from the select committees of the 
Houses of Lords and Commons, appoint- 
ed to enquire into the present state of the 
affairs of the East India Company. 
1830-31. 
BelVs Comparative View of the External 
Commerce of Bengal, during the years 
1834-35 and 1835-36, pp. 106. 
A Treatise on the Cultivation of Sugar _ 
canes, and the manufacture of Sugar, 
comprehending instructions for planting , 
and saving the cane, expressing the 
juice, 8fc. 8fc. By W. Fitzmaurice, 
many years a planter in the island of 
Jamaica, pp. 69, 1830. 
The nature and properties of the Sugar- 
cane, with practical directions for the 
improvement of its culture and the 
manufacture of its products. By 
George Richardson, Porter 
Philadelphia, pp> 354-, 1831. 
From a remote period the natives of this 
country possessed the art of making sugar 
on the exact principles of manufacture pur- 
sued with so much success in the West 
Indies, and we learn from the work by Mr. 
Fitzmaurice that, on this account, the Court 
of Directors ordered, in 1792, a report to 
be drawn up on the subject, which was 
printed in that year by Debrett. From this 
report we find, that sugar, ever since the 
accession of the British to the territorial 
jurisdiction of Bengal, was a capital staple 
commodity, and drew annually into these 
provinces specie to a very considerable 
amount, which was wholly expended here in 
the purchase of that commodity for expor- 
tation, principally to the ports of aliens on 
both sides of India . We should have sup- 
posed that, under such favorable results, the 
sugar trade of this country never would have 
declined, but its history shows that the 
trade had been lost at a late period, the 
current totally reversed, and immense trea- 
sures exported hence, for the purchase of 
the same article in foreign ports. On refer- 
ring to the Bengal Consultations, Revenue 
Department, 5th of June, 1776, it will be 
found that the sugar trade had so alarmingly 
declined, that an address on the subject 
was presented to the Government of that 
period, by persons evidently conversant on 
the subject. The export had then ceased, 
a neglect of the proper system of manu- 
facture was the result ; for the peasant or 
ryot had few wants, and the raw cane, or a vis- 
cous juice expressed from it, supplied all his 
wants for temporary aliment or indulgence ; 
the juice being boiled into a syrup, and of a 
quality adapted for making the coarse kind of 
sweetmeats, supplied the demand. This 
syrup, called Gour or Jaggery, was how- 
ever plentifully exported to Europe. Now 
