188 TBMMINCIv’S general view OF THE DUTCH 
1790, the conviction that the Company was destitute of the means to 
put a face on its affairs ; the suppression of the charter granted to 
this association was submitted for deliberation by the Government; 
nevertheless it only took place in 1798 under the rule of the Batavi¬ 
an republic which annulled the grant given in 1602 to this Com¬ 
pany ; the State took upon itself the administration of all the inter- 
tropical possessions; the immense debt with which it found itself 
overwhelmed passed to the charge of Government; in the course of 
a score of years the Company cost the country more than 100 millions. 
At the termination of the decline of the Company and when it 
came to abandon its power, Marshal Daendels saw himself charged, 
in the name of the new monarchical Government established in Hol¬ 
land, with organizing the possessions of the State in India. He en¬ 
tered upon this administration under the most unfavourable auspices, 
as may be Learned from the precis which we have given of the mo¬ 
dern history of Java. 
Under the perhaps very absolute but, for the rest honest and firm 
administration of this Governor General, which dates from 1808 to 
1811, we do not remark any amelioration in the finances, but a rapid 
progress t ook place in the civil and military institutions; be establish¬ 
ed our pow T er upon a solid basis, and caused to be executed ma¬ 
ny works of public utility; but the vexatious circumstances of bis 
position, during the long struggle against the English supremacy up¬ 
on the seas, rendered it impossible for him to realize the hopes he 
had conceived for the re-establisliment of the finances and the aug¬ 
mentation of the territorial revenues of Java, The financial results 
of these three years offered a very considerable further deficit, as is 
shewn by the following table 
In 1808. 
1809, 
1810, 
The expences a- 
mounted to,. 
and the receipts to, 
f. 2,532,497. 36 f. 5,014,797. 11 
„ 2,446,402. 98 „ 2,724,786. 67 
f. 7,101,781. 76 
„ 3,554,878. 67 
The deficit is, .. 
f. 86,094.38 
f. 2,290,010. 44 
f. 3,547,303. 09 
without reckoning the great quantity of paper which he put into cir¬ 
culation, as well as the sale of many considerable properties, a mea¬ 
sure to which he was obliged to have recourse to meet considerable 
pxpenccs. 
