It seems from some paragr...
It seems from some paragrapbs in the Calcutta papers, that our countrymen, forming the Erglish community of India, are not less dissatisfied tban we lhave expressed our- selves with the subsisting relations between Great Britain and Holland throuighout the Eastern Seas. Datch cupidity, and Datch illiberality, and Dutch antipathT toBritish com- merce, are the subjects of loud complaint among our mer- chants. This may be naturai, but it is not reasonable. So long as the Government of Holland a.bstains from acts amounting to positive illegality against this empire, we act foolishly in making it the scapegoat. The true offenders have been ouir own ilinisters, who, knowing (if they knew any thing) that the Dutch were a monopolizing and enter- prising people, placed English comnmerce so completely at their mercy, by surrendering, together with the most va- luable positions of the Indian Archipelago, all our means of control and effectual supremacy over Holland. 'fhe noble island of Sumatra, which we have now consented to- aban- don, is more than double in extent,and more than fifty-fold in value, the peninsula of Malacca, from which the Datch Grovernment has withdrawn its single factory. The island of Sumatra touches the Straits both of Malacea and of Sunda, the only two routes for the trade between India and China. 'As for the heavy taxes and embarrassing regulations im- posed upon any commerce with Dutch ports in the -Eastern Seas, we have, as has been stated, no charge to bring against Holland; but against those who enableA Holland to make her known system an engine for assaulting the general freedom of the Archipelago, and with it the commercial and maritime interests of Great Britain. If the natives of Java, and of the other British conquests, as well as of all our former Asiatic friends aud allies, be vexed by the sordid and rapacious tyranny of those in whose favour We deserted them, let the blame rest on the proper shoulders. Of Holland, for acting on Dutch principles, we have no shadow of title to complain. It was first Lord LON- BSONDERRY, antd next Mr.WYvNN, wvho threwv the cards into M. FAGEL's hands, sensible, as they must have been, what use his employers wiould make of them.