Considerations on the Danger and Impolicy of laying open the trade with India and China; Including an Examination of the Objections Commonly Urged against the East India Company's Commercial and Finan

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“The following Sheets contain the substance of a series of Letters which appeared in the Morning Chronicle in the course of last summer, under the signature of Cossim . The author finding the subject too extensive to be fully discussed within the limits of a newspaper, resolved to submit his thoughts to the Public in their present shape.” (Preface). The writing was clearly on the wall: This books attempts to refute the arguments for breaking up the monopoly on trade held by the East India Company. A year later the 1813 the Charter Act ended the monopoly for trade in India, but the EIC retained its exclusive right of the tea trade with China until 1833. The Charter Act also for the first time permitted protestant missionaries to enter India although their activities continued to be severely restricted.

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