Florins. For the Surplus Expenses at the Cape of Good Hope 150,000 For the same in Bengal 33,120 For the same at Surat 40,000 For the Military Expenses in India 2,571,314 For Salaries to Civil Servants 1,000,000 For Ammunition, &c, 100,000 For Fortifications and Repairs 400,000 For Sloops and minor Vessel 200,000 For Hospital Expenses 100,000 On Account of Confiscations 18,000 For Presents to Native Princes 32,000 Interest on Sums lent in India 100,000 For Stores and Goods shipped in India 200,000 For eventual Losses 100,000 For the Purchase of the Produce in India 4,519,400 For Insurance at five per cent. on the Money sent to India 212,700 For Freight on Returns of Homeward-bound Cargoes 3,300,000 Insurance and Risk of the Sea in India 200,000 For Freight of Tonnage in India 699,030 For Freight for 2,320 Men, to complete the Military and Civil Establishment in India 219,240 For the Passage home of 450 men 28,350 Bounty Money to 2,020 military men 303,000 Premiums to 300 civil servants 60,000 Recognition to the Admiralty 360,000 Contribution to the same 500,000 Total Expenses of the Company's Establishments at home 1,000,000 Yearly Interest to be paid 4,758,000 Dividends at 12½ per cent. to the Holders of Stock 831,000 ---------- 22,035,154 Balance 1,052,379 ---------- TOTAL _Florins_ 23,087,533 ----------
These Commissioners seemed to entertain no very favourable ideas of the benefits which would arise to private trade from the license it already enjoyed. As a measure much more beneficial to the general trade of Europe and to the Company, they proposed, in lieu of it, to throw open to individuals, under certain restrictions, the trade and navigation from Europe to Bengal and Coromandel.
Thus we see these Commissioners sent out with the view of introducing something like free trade on Java, coming to a resolution to take away from it even the little private trade which it had previously been allowed to enjoy.
The Company's trade with continental India had already been so much encroached upon by foreigners, that it was judged expedient no longer to exclude the Dutch free trader from his share in the spoil; but it was hoped, by increased strictness, to preserve entire to the Company the exclusive trade in spices, Javan coffee, pepper as far as it was the produce of her own possessions, Japan copper, the opium which was consumed in Java and in the Moluccas, and Javan sugar.