Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Boston Palladium, April 4
FROM CALCUTTA.

By the brig Indus, capt. Wills, from Calcutta, we have received papers to the 6th of Dec.

Bombay, Nov. 10.

When we consider the general paucity of commercial transactions of the present crisis, we cannot help thinking that positive evils are often productive of beneficial results, for if it had not been for the expedition against the pi-
rates, which has employed seventeen of our ships profitably for some months, moorings, as there was no chance for those ships, might have rotted at their employing them. It has also given our breathing time, that will do much towards its resuscitation. Of the precise object of the present armament we have no very clear conception; but from its magnitude, consider it to have in view something more than even the extinction of the Joasmees. If however, as we surmise, an establishment is in contemplation, we may look forward to the re-establishment of our ancient relations with Persia, and the extension of our commerce through the provinces of that kingdom.

That the Joasmees will renounce the trade of piracy, without being coerced by the strong hand of power, we have no expectation—the habits of ages are not laid by in a day, and we believe they are as proud of their profession, as a Hengist or an Ulric of the former times. The only chance therefore of producing any reformation in them, is, by settling near them; and inducing them, by our example to become a commercial people.

Mahommed Ah Khan accompanied the expedition as a private friend of the commander in chief, and not in any public capacity.

The whole quantity of cotton sent to China from different parts of India, from January 1st to Oct. 31st, 1819, is as follows:

From Bombay, bales of 561 lb. net 49,700
From Bengal, bales of 500 lb. net 21,700
From Madras, bales of 300 lb. net 8,000

To which must be added some shipments of India cotton, both from England and America. 6,000
80,400

This is however scarce half the quantity that found its way there last year, so that we may assuredly look forward to an amendment in the markets.

Commercial.—But little is doing in this way; if we except the loading of the Indiamen for the Eastern passage, nothing: for, strange to say, we have only four free traders in the harbour, one only of which may be considered as in the market, our coasting trade, has however been prosperous, and such is the quantity of wheat imported, that it fell at once from 120 to 40 rupees per candy. The resources of Bombay may be at once inferred from this.