GRACCHUS.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The rights and pretensions of the Company are fully considered in the Tenth Letter.
[2] Considerations on the Danger of laying open the Trade with India and China, p. 13.
[3] Ibid. p. 18.
LETTER II.
Wednesday, January 13, 1813.
It is a distinguishing character appertaining to Britons, to express forcibly their feelings, whenever they think they discover any disposition to encroach upon their rights. It is not therefore to be wondered at, that the communication of the papers, on the subject of the East India Company's Charter, which was made by the Directors to the Proprietors, on the 5th instant, should have produced the effect which was then manifested; of an almost unanimous disposition, to support the Directors in their resistance of a measure, which, at the time, was regarded as an invasion, on the part of the Government, of the established rights of the East India Company.