To shorten the discussion, however, let the Proprietors and the Company take the following compressed view, of the probable consequences which would severally result, from a _compliance with_, or _rejection of_, the proposition made by Government, as the basis of a new Charter; and let them consider, in _which of the two_ they foresee the greatest security for their own future interests. If, upon maturely weighing the case before them, the Company should accede to the proposition of Government; and if an arrangement, founded upon that proposition, should receive the sanction of Parliament; 1. The Company will preserve _the entire China trade_; and this principal sphere of their commercial profit, will remain undisturbed. 2. They will possess advantages for continuing to carry on the India trade, so far superior to those of all private competitors, from _their territorial and commercial revenues_, that, with a moderate exertion of their activity, they may preserve almost the whole of that trade. 3. They will possess _the regulation and control of the India trade_, so far as depends upon the Indian Governments; and as those Governments will continue in the exercise of the executive power, all the private Merchants, who may repair to the ports and harbours within the extensive limits of their jurisdiction, will of course _be subject to the authority of their Government_. 4. They will retain the whole patronage and expenditure of a revenue of upwards of _Fifteen Millions_ sterling per annum in India, together with very extensive establishments at home, depending upon that revenue. 5. The accounts between the Public and the Company, being brought to no sudden and violent crisis of settlement, may be amicably and leisurely adjusted, with a view to mutual convenience. On the other hand, should the Company incautiously drop the _substance_ to pursue the _shadow_, and refuse the proposition of Government; and should Parliament, upon a full and deliberate consideration of the actual circumstances of the Company, deem it more advisable to bring their accounts with the Public to a thorough investigation and final settlement, than to admit the Company's new pretensions to _a perpetual monopoly_; 1. The Company will lose as much of the China trade as may fall into the hands of the private merchants, who _think_ they shall be able to sell tea 85 per cent. cheaper than the Company. 2. They will lose the control of the India commerce, _and will carry on their traffic in India as subjects_, in common with the private British merchants. 3. By that loss, voluntarily incurred, they may throw the greatest part of the trade into the hands of the private traders. 4. They will _lose the patronage of India, and the establishments depending upon it_; which they will thus compel Parliament, contrary to the disposition of Government, to place under different arrangements.