The Court of Directors of the East India Company Versus Her Majestys Ministers
The Court of Directors of the East India Company Versus Her Majestys Ministers
James Barber
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Who will say this is not a moderate and safe computation ? but to * "The people could take a great deal of the k British manufac- tures ; they are remarkably fond of them, particularly of scarlet It is a mistaken notion that Indians are too simple in their man- ners to have any passion for foreign manufactures. They are hindered from taking our goods, not by want of inclination, but either by poverty, or the fear of being imputed rich, and having their rents raised. When we relinquish the barba...rous system of annual settlements ; when we make over the lands either in very long leases, or in perpetuity, to the present occupants ; and when we have convinced them, by making no assessments above the fixed rent for a series of years, that they are actually proprietors of the soil, WE SHALL SEE A DEMAND FOR EUROPEAN ARTICLES, OF WHICH WE HAVE AT PRESENT NO CONCEPTION. " S> T. Munro. 23 this should be added the many that will proceed not only from all parts of the continent of Europe, but from America.
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