Interesting Extracts from the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee of the Whole House, to Whom it was Referred to Consider of the Affairs of the East India Company, in the Sessions 1813: Illustrative of the Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, Steel, Brass, Tin, Copper, Hemp, Cordage, &c. by the Natives of IndiaT. Davison, 1814 - 41 sider |
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Side 3 - Imlia, the first consideration of the government must always be its own safety ; and that the political question of governing that country must be paramount to all other considerations : under that view of the case, I conceive every subordinate measure (and such I conceive that referred to in the question) must be regulated entirely by the superior consideration of political security. Might not an increase in the knowledge of useful arts in the natives, conveyed by British subjects resident in India,...
Side 5 - Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 25, p. 433. Mr. Graeme Mercer was asked, ' ' Are the natives of India generally a manufacturing people, skillful in manufacturing operations, and likely to provide for themselves whatever manufactures they stand in need of? — They are very much so, and have hardly any, if any, wants from foreign countries ' '.. — Hansard 's Parliamentary Debates, Vol.
Side 36 - ... such knowledge to the natives would add to their comforts and their enjoyments of life, and would increase their strength as a community, I do not think that the communication of any knowledge which tended gradually to do away the subsisting distinctions among our native subjects, or to diminish that respect which they entertain for Europeans, could be said to add to the political strength of the English government. I am far, however, from stating an opinion that the contemplation of...
Side 3 - I mean by useful knowledge, an improvement in mechanical arts, manufactures, and every thing that tends to render them more happy and comfortable. Do not you think that it would be good policy in the British government to increase the means of information to the natives of India...
Side 10 - India is full of merchants of every class, from the pedjar up to the highest merchant; they pervade every part of the country ; there is no article for which there is the most trifling demand, whether European or Indian, that is not soon carried to the spot where the demand is, by the travelling merchants ; they have correspondents in every quarter upon the coast, and in the interior, and wherever they hear of a demand, they take care to supply it immediately.
Side 34 - Company's teas; much might depend, however, upon the judg nent and capability of selection, of the parties who purchased them. Do you know any thing of the island of Banca and its produce ?— The produce of Banca is principally tin. Do you know whether the island of Banca produces tin in any considerable quantities? — I understand it to do so. Have you the means of information whether that tin is easily obtained, from the mines in the island or Banca ? — I apprehend it to be so, but I never...
Side 17 - It u for the express purpose of enabling them to do that, that they are allowed, I believe. Are there not actually many Europeans settled up the country in Bengal, upon property of this description, such as indigo manufacturers and others?— A considerable number ; I before stated two or three, but I...
Side 21 - ... was, to try by every means in my power to see what articles of trade could yield profit, whether from India or from Europe. Did you make repeated voyages to those ports ? — I was four years in that trade ; I made four voyages from 1783 to 1787 ; I sailed from Bengal one year in April, I returned again in January ; the next year I sailed about the same time again, and returned in December ; the voyages were all similar as to their close ; I was more or less employed according to the sale of...
Side 22 - ... goods for it at the ports of Rhio, and at the port of Borneo, at Salengur in the straits of Malacca, at Trengenna, and on the west coast of Malay : I received tin at those places, after selling my goods generally at from 14, never exceeding 16 dollars a pecul; I have sold my opium and my piece-goods and have taken in exchange a return of tin, pepper, and gold dust, at different prices, valuing tin at 15 and 16 dollars a pecul ; I have purchased tin specifically with money at 12 dollars a pecul.