Excerpt from Second and Third Reports From the Select Committee Appointed to Consider of the Means of Improving and Maintaining the Foreign Trade of the Country, 1821: Communicated by the Commons to the Lords This fact illustrates the futility of any other reason assigned for the restriction, than that which the Company now appear to disclaim, the danger of smuggling at home. Danger, arising in the Eastern Islands, must be expected as much from vessels trading With the Mediterranean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Second and Third Reports From the Select Committee Appointed to Consider of the Means of Improving and Maintaining the Foreign Trade of the Country, 1821 Of the origin of this restriction, as well as of the necessity which now exists for continuing it, Your Committee will give the words of Mr. Grant With respect to the admission to the minor ports of the continent of India, the design of that restriction was, to prevent the access of vessels to places where there was no British authority on the spot, to prevent the irregularities that might ensue; there may be still some danger of this kind, but I do not hold it to be of great importance, nor do I think the Company attach any great importance to it. Upon this subject of Special Licences, Your Committee have been iii formed, that during the discussions in which they have been engaged, and subsequently to the reception of the evidence of Mr. Rickards on this sub ject, which will be found in their minutes, the Court of Directors of the East India Company have come to a resolution, to comply with all the applications for special licences which were then pending before them, or before the Board of Commissioners. This resolution originated in the conviction, sanctioned by the opinion of the most eminent lawyers, that under a fair construction of the several Acts, British vessels trading under the ordinary licence to one or more of the principal settlements in India, and having completed that outward voyage, may remain in India, with the right to carry on trade from port to port in India, (including the minor ports, ) or any other trade within, as well as without, the limits of the Charter or may take in a homeward cargo, as well ata minor port as at a principal settlement. The rights of the British traders, independent of a licence, being thus extensive, the Court of Directors have acted with a praiseworthy liberality, in not withholding from them the only additional facility, which, under the Acts, they might have refused to grant. Your Committee trust, that special licences for permission to proceed from a port of the United Kingdom to any port of India other than a principal settlement, will henceforward be granted in all instances in which they are desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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