THE MOLUCCA ISLANDS. 
'XV 
As i egards soil, climate and the friendly disposition of the inhabitants, 
Teiuate would offer the greatest advantages if a European colonisation were 
introduced there. 
The Dutch administration there is composed of a resident assisted by a 
secretary and two employes, having the rank of assistant resident at Galela 
an i Eiljolie in the island of Ahnaheira or Giloio. 
These establishments were formed in 1824, during the voyage of the Go¬ 
vernor General van der Capellen ; his object in this was to protect the inha¬ 
bitants, to encourage their agricultures and their cixtall commerce. 
Ternate possesses also a magistracy, a council of justice, and an orphan 
chamber, 
I cannot better conclude this sketch of the Molucca 'slands, than by here 
subjoining the following balance or the result of a year's receipts by the state 
and the expenses f.r the Government and the defence of these possessions, 
1822* Receipts. Expenses. 
Amboyua & its dependencies.. .. .. / 853,286.25.12 970,148.27.15 
Banda. 795,910.06.04 571,082.27.1a 
Ternate. 94,147.15.12 329,268.04.09 
Menadoaud Gorontalo... 315,740.16,08 185,517.04.04 
Total./ 2,059,415.04 04 2,056,017.04,07 
Excess of receipts..... .. 3,397.29.13 
/ 2,059,415.04.04 
The establishment of Ternate appears in this year to have given the most 
unfavorable results ; in examining more closely the different articles of the 
receipts and expenses, 1 bud that in 1322, this possession was debited with a 
sum of’/ 104,618.18.07 for cloths 8£Cof which they had not sold, and credited 
more than the sum of /60,361.08 (It ; it ought to be remarked that the pen¬ 
sion of tlie Sultan figures here for/81,990.00,oo, an expense which does not 
exist in the other islands. 
The sales of cloves of Amboy na,amount in 1822 to the sum of/5o3,183,17.oi 
while the expenses of culture do not coine to more than / 68,812.28.04. 
The culture properly speaking or the purchase of spices of Banda cost 
f 89,9l8.oo.oo ; the sale of these spices produced /’563,145,25.00 according 
to the general books kept at Batavia, 
* It is proper to add here that already in 1824, after the tour of inspection 
of the Governor General to the Moluccas, the expenses have been very much 
diminished; principally in respect to the system of defence anil provision- 
merit; the expenses of the war department having been diminished/34o,ooo f 
by reducing tiiu utnnber of superior officers, «Ss others &c, 
