Colonization of India by Europeans

10 Why the East India Company prevented the English from settling in India lf: Natives of England jealous of the monopoly of the Company - 17 The pleas put forth to supplant the rule of the Company 18 The views of Warren Hastings and Sir John Malcolm - 20 And of Mr. [...] When the subject was discussed in the House of Comons on the 25th of may 1813 the speakers who were opposed to the abolition of the monopoly of the trade privileges of the East India Company brought forward very weighty arguments against the proposed change. [...] * * * * "If there were any considerable increase in the intecourse of Englishmen with the natives of India are you of opinion that it would have an ill effect noon the opinions of the natives of India relative to the character of Englishmen ?—Most undoubtedly they would naturally 3"34 TUE COLONIZATION OF INDIA BY EUROPEANS draw their opinion of the character of the country from the conduct of [...] "net when legal redress is sought for injuries inflicted the affinity of the country language manners b..ad d dress"58 THE COLONIZATION OF INDIA BY EUROPEANS of the Judge with those of the person against whom the complaint is lodged and possibly the social intercourse subsisting between them will somewhat shake the confdence of the prosecutor in the justice of the sentence when it does not [...] There remains only the object of stimulating and directing the exertions of the natives themselves ; an object which fails very far short of the sanguine expectations of the advocates of the system of free resort of European settlers to India and an object which under the present system seems to me to be attained to its full extent or under the present system admits of being carried to any furt