East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar.

East India Company

Date:: 1822

Credit: East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Agreed, That the following answer be written to the Resident, and that Boart\ of Trade application be made for the advance he requests, as under : narof 20July1792* Sir :—We have received your letter of the 15th instant, in reply to ours of v' ' the 10th, on the subject of a sugar investment at your station. We approve of what you have done in the business, and have applied for the advance of cash you desire on account thereof. We wish that, for the present, your disbursements for the sugar be not brought into your general accounts, but that the account of them be kept apart, and sent down monthly with a separate letter. Your correspondence in general on the subject, we wish moreover to come distinct from other matter. We are, &c. Letter from the Board of Trade to the Governor-General in Council, 20th July 1792. (Secret Department.)—My Lord:—We beg leave to inform your Lordship, Letter from Board that haying recently learned that the sugar-cane is cultivated in the Commercolly of Trade to Go- districts, we, in pursuance of the Court of Directors’ wishes that the consign- »ernmeJ‘» 20 u y ment of sugar to them this season should be as large as possible, sent instructions to the Resident to engage for the Company all he can procure. What the quantity may be he has, in his reply, reported to be not as yet ascertainable : but having desired an immediate advance of C.Rs. 10,000, to enable him to commence the provision, we request you will be pleased to grant him a credit accordingly upon one of the Collectors, as in further augmentation of his investment. We are, &c. Extract Board of Trade Consultations, 24th July 1792. Received the following letter from the Sub-Secretary of the Government: Letter from .Go- . vernment to Board Sir:—I am directed by the Governor-General in Council to acknowledge of Trade423 July the receipt of the Board of Trade’s letter of the 20th instant, and to desire t H92. that you will acquaint them that the Board of Revenue have been instructed ^ to give orders for advancing to the Commercial Resident at Commercolly the sum of C.Rs. 10,000, in further augmentation of his investment. I am, &c. J. Fombelle, Sub-Secretary. Council Chamber, 23d July 1792. Extract Board of Trade Consultations, 3d August 1792. The present state of the sugar trade appearing to render expedient the Board of Trade taking early measures for providing cargoes of the article for the ships that to the Commercial will sail from hence in the season 1793-4, Agreed, that the following 1Je8l^gtt8]*yg2 Au instructions be circulated to the Sugar Aurungs : viz. Benares, Commercolly, Radnagore, Rungpore, Santipore, Soonamooky, and Patna. Sir Being desirous of obtaining for the Honourable Company as large a quantity as possible of sugar from the cane now upon the ground, we request you to take such measures as may appear most eligible to you for this purpose, and to inform us, as soon as you can, what money you will require, when you will require it, what quantity of the article you may be able to procure, and what mode of provision you may adopt. The sugar that you may procure cannot be exported previous to the shipping season of 1793-4 ; but we are thus early in our directions, on account of the eager speculations which exist, and are likely to continue, in this article, from the scarcity of it in the Europe market, in consequence of the dis¬ turbances in the French West-India Islands ; and we request that you will proceed with all the despatch in your power, and be especially careful to keep the purport of these orders from transpiring, as your difficulties might thereby be considerably increased. We are not able to give any specific directions in regard to price. You must be guided by local circumstances, and we rely upon your discretion for procuring the article as reasonablv as vou can. (1) * ' N You$