'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.' [‎6] (31/342)

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FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
may be urged, that the expenditure of Europeans, in their public
and private buildings, has, adequately, fupplied the wants of the
artizan and labourer. - But, I am led to hazard an opinion, that
this amount falls much flioit of that applied by the preceding
princes to the conftrudlion of mofques, baths, Hindoo temples,
grand refervoirs of water, fpacious gardens, together with a variety
of coldly private edifices. Thefe modes of expence are neither
adapted to the genius, or inclination, of Europeans, who have no
religious paflion to gratify, nor are they impelled, by patriot zeal,
to raife monuments of grandeur in India ; but holding themfelves
the moveable tenants of the day, they are eager to reach their na
tive home, that they may there enjoy the fruits of their labour.
As the remittance of Englilh property to Europe could not be
fufficiently attained, by means of public bills, the fervants of the
Company, and private merchants, have been often driven to the
neceffity of exporting fpecie, though fuch a medium be, attended
with heavy lofs; or they are induced to throw their cafh into fo
reign funds, whereby their enemies, or at leafir, their rivals, are en
riched. The injurious tendency of this limitation of public remit
tance, having been fo feverely felt, and repeatedly reprefented to the
fuperior Government in England, it is to be expected that the chan
nel of conveying property from India, will be opened in fo efficient
amanner, that the neceffity of purfuing, in future the dellruc-
tive alternative of exporting gold and filver, or employing foreign
agents, will be, wholly, obviated. As the private calh taken up in
India
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