1797+] 
therefore refign all their poffeffions in thofe 
places, and will maintain there only a. few per- 
fons to manage fome particular affairs, The 
ypepper trade fhall be confined to one factory at 
Malabar, which fhall coft no more annually than 
1,310,000 florins. The whole trade of Coro- 
mandel fhallalfo be given up to private perfons ; 
and only two faétories thall be kept there, at the 
expence of 40,000 florins. They may here 
procure cotton in barter, and tranfmit it, ata- 
certain price agreed on, to Batavia and Holland ; 
and fend from Batavia to Coromandel and variqus 
parts, fugar, fpices, and other commodities. 
The company declage the trade with. Bengal, 
filk and cotton articles to be allo free 3 but, as 
they will purchafe their opium and falt-petre on 
their own account, they mean to retainthe fac- 
tory ; but they will fuffer thefe produétions to be 
tranfported in veffels belonging to private owners. 
The whole trade to the weftern coaft of Sumatra 
will alfo be given up to private perfons: the 
company, however, mean to retain Padang. As 
they make fo many facrifices and abandon the 
whole of the weftern trade, by having occafion 
for fewer fhips and men, they will fave 1,5%3,000 
florins, and have an annual furplus of 242,000 
florins. Private merchants, in future, may fend 
from Europe to India goods of all kinds, except 
fuch as are actually prohibited; but they muft 
be tran{ported by the company’s thips, ata ftated 
The yearly income and expences of each of 
Affairs in 179%, of the Dutch India Company. 
353 
freight, which is calculated to produce annually 
600,000 florins. Every thing fent to Europe, 
on account of private merchants, fhall be fold at 
the company’s fales ; and for this the company 
fhall receive an acknowledgment of from eight 
to fifteen per cent. 
3. The pofs which the company had in the 
neighbourhood of the Spice Iflands, to render it 
dificult for foreign nations to vifit them, thall, 
on account of the great expence, be alio given 
up. They will introduce the cultivation of rice 
into Banda and Amboyna, to make unneceffary 
the expenfive importation from Java, by which 
means the company expects to fave annually the 
fum of 960,060 florins. 
4. In future four fhips fhall go to Batavia, 
two to Ceylon, and four to China. For the 
country trade in the Eaftern feas, which the 
company retain, no more than thirteen or four- 
teen fhips fhall be employed ; two fbips fhall be 
employed for all the fettlements retained from 
Malacca to Timor ; two for Japan 3 aad two for 
Banda. . Formerly the fix chambers of Holland 
were obliged to expend 4,482,140 florins for 
the annual equipment of the fleet; but, at pre- 
fent, no more than 3,216,000 will be required 
for that purpofe. 
5. The opium company fhall be abolithed, by 
which the company hopes to gain 350,000 
florins. 
the fettlements were in the year 178, and ip 
1791, aiter the new regulations had taken place, as exprefled in the following table : 

Florins. 



In the year 1737. 
Income. |Expences. 

a 
In the year 1791. 



Income. 
Florins. 
—~ 
Expences. 


—— 
Florins. 



Florins. 




1,96 1,684|2,814,200]2,706,236 [2,948,537 





Ceylon - 823,362) 323,362\1,345,761| 794,755 
Coromandel * 49,000] , 
Malabar 229,820] 342.072| 200,000{ 690,000 
Bengal 3273139} 180,390 
Surat 8,000 
Padang + 10,000 
Bantam 13,75¢| 74,0201 66,098 3,607 
Palembang 4,6701 70,239 60,627 6,586 
Malacca { 141,925} 183,410 
Japan 1395353} 109.541 
Amboyna 39732) 216,430) 246,447| 64,077 
Banda 15,0%2| 116,523| 206,822] 80,935 
Ternate 385365) 297,120| 214,010] $3,219 
Macafler 65,613) 184,613] 155,736] 76,878 
Timer 72725) 24,736 16,812} 16,018 
Samarang 495:974) 330,407| 346,744| 419,224 
Cheribon 36,764! 14,430} .18,935| 40,329 
Banjerma fing 11,84!| .§2,448) 16,018 3,180 
Cape of Good Hope 343537911,793,717] 535,42C| 199,045 
Puntiana 4,631] ~ 12,068 9,782 2,289 
Total 4.58539 313537 53324|6,576,888|5,109,4.49 
where e) Income 427,131 florins Expences _ 452,132 
+ 1779 ditto 74,577 ditto ditto 53,075 
a Tag ditto’ 162.520 ditto ditto 133,235 Tn 
