THE LETTERS
GRACCHUS
ON THE
_EAST INDIA QUESTION_.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD,
BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER,
NO. 190, OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY.
1813.
Printed by S. GOSNELL, Little Queen Street, London.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The following Letters appeared in the MORNING POST, at the dates which are annexed to them. The impartial Reader will find in them a strong determination, to uphold the public rights of the Country, with respect to the India Trade; but he will not discover any evidence of a desire to lower the just, and well-earned honours, of THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, nor any symptom of a disposition hostile to their fair pretensions.
LETTERS
OF
GRACCHUS.
LETTER I.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE EAST INDIA QUESTION.
_Tuesday, January 12, 1813._
The crisis, at which the affairs of the East India Company are now arrived, is one which involves the most important interests of the
British Empire. It would be unnecessary to prove a proposition which is so universally acknowledged and felt. It has happened however, that, in our approaches towards this crisis, the Public understanding has been but little addressed upon the subject; so that the appeal which is now suddenly made to their passions and imaginations, finds them unprepared with that knowledge of the true circumstances of the case, which can alone enable them to govern those passions, and control those imaginations. Let…