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p.1 : Chormandel 1739 Advijs van den Gouverneur Jacob Mossel benevens den Raad tot Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], over de Consideratien van den Heer Raad Ordinair en Ceijlons gouverneur Gustaaff Willem van Imhoff Concernerende den Lywaat Handel op en langs de Cust van Madure [=Madura] met relatie tot de Munt aldaar gangbaar &(a) Item nadere Aanmerkingen van gemelten Heer Gouverneur Mossel over het Ad[v]ijs van den Bengaals Directeur Joan Albert Sichterman wegens de Valuatie der geldspetien te Cormandel en Bengale ged(t). 12 September 1739. Opinion of Governor Jacob Mosel & of the counsellor[s] at Negapatam relative to the considerations of the Governor of Ceylon G. W. Van Imhoff respecting the Linen trade along the coast of Madura as far as relates to the coin there current—with further opinion of Jacob Mosel relative to the value of the coins of Coromandel & Bengal. The whole contents of this volume are in Dutch.

1, (a) pp. 3-20: Table of Contents of the following paper. (b) pp. 23-98: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 12 September 1739. Advijs van Jacob Mossel . . . . over de Consideratien van den Edelen Heer Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff. . . . raalcende den lijwaat handel ter Madureese Custe, met relatie tot de munt aldaar, en verder om de west van India, ingevolge de Expresse ordre van haar hoog Edelheedens de hooge Indiase Regeeringe tot Batavia opgesteld, en bij een gebragt ; zo verre het selve Concerneert de munten, en ’s E comp(s) handel ter Selve Custe Chormandel, en 't daar toe relative. Copy. The chief matters dealt with are:- The relative values of the different currencies, and of gold and silver in India (as compared with Europe, and as affecting a proposal to reckon the pagoda at fl. 6); the different rates of exchange adopted by the Dutch and English respectively; p. 29: Trade of coromandel: its geographical extent by land in India (with a list of the chief articles of trade), and by sea with Acheen, Burma, Bengal, and Surat; export trade in cotton goods and other local products; p. 32: Coromandel currency and mint; exchange and value of the pagoda; the fanams of Negapatam, Portonovo, Sadras, and Pulicat; Kilkare currency and the Madura fanam, their effect on trade; difference between English and Dutch rates of exchange; assay of the Madura fanam; p. 49: Proposal to treat the fanam as equal to 5 stivers, discussed from the point of view of its effect on the trade of Coromandel and Ceylon, &c.; consideration of the relative values of gold and silver, with special reference to the exchange value of Bengal rupees; p. 66: Bengal trade (in silks, cottons, opium, saltpetre, &c.), its annual turnover; the commercial advantages and disadvantages of Bengal as compared with Coromandel; foreign competition; the trade between Bengal, Coromandel, Ceylon, Malabar, and Surat, and the local trade of some of these places; values of moneys current in Malabar; p. 86: Intrinsic and conventional values of the currencies of Ceylon, Coromandel, Malabar, Bengal, and Surat; statistics of the sales of spices (mace, cloves, and nutmegs) in Coromandel for the years 1728/9-1737/8, and similar details for Hooghly, 1727/8-1733/4, showing the effects of the raising of the prices in 1728/9--1730/1; a 10 per cent. Rise in the price of spices throughout India recommended; not, however, in the price of cinnamon; statistics of the sales of spices for the years 1731/2-1733/4 in Coromandel, Bengal, Surat, Ceylon (with Kilkare), Malabar (Cochin),. and Persia, the total value amounting to ft. 841,552. The signatories of this memoir were J(b) Mossell, B(r) V(n) Duijn, I(k) D(s) Dafonseca, I(n) H(k) Van Panhuijs, C(l) L(k) Van Drentelen, W(r) d'Jongh, Ian Martensz:, Louis Gravia, and A(m) Velge.

2, pp. 99-101: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 29 August 1739. Berekening van Goud, Zilver, en eenige geld-Spetien. By P(r) de Wint. Copy. Calculations as to the weights, standards of fineness, and intrinsic values of the Negapatam pagoda and fanam, Portonovo, Sadras, Pulicat, and Madura fanams, Ikeri pagoda, and Cochin fanam.

3, p. 103: Nagap: [=Negapatam], 29 August 1739. Copy. Letter from Jan Martensz: to Governor Jacob Mossel, reporting the resu1ts of an assay of 12 Madurese gold fanams.

4, pp. 105-7: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 15August 1739. Copy. Deposition of one Moetamba lawana moddeliaar regarding certain money-changing transactions illustrating the relative values of the moneys of Arcot, Portonovo, and Negapatam.

5, p. 111: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 25 August 1739. Aanthoning van het verschil wegens den in- en verkoop van 1. pak guinees door de differeerende Reductie in gelde bij de nederland-Oostindische Comp(e) en die van de Engelse natie. By P(r) d'Wint. Copy. On the different rates of exchange recognised by the Dutch and British respectively.

6, p. 113: Extract brief door d'E: heer Jan Albert Sichterman, directeur, benevens den raad tot Houglij [=Hugli] in Bengale, gesz: aan de Edele Hooge Indiase Regering tot Batavia, de dato 31. maart A(o) 1739. On the Hooghly currency.

7, pp. 119-20: Extract brief door den E: heer Jacob Sadelijn directeur benevens den Raad tot Houglij [= Hugli] in Bengale, geschreeven aan de Edele Hooge Indiase regeeringe te Batavia dato 30. november 1730. uijt het marginaal antwoord op het extract Vaderlandse missive dato rs. aug: 1729. dito brief g'insereert. On the Hooghly currency.

8, p. 123: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 14 August 1739. Copy. Letter from Jan Martensz: to Governor Jacob Mossel, on the weight and standard of fineness of Surat rupees.

9, pp. 127-36: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 10 July 1740. Aanmerkingen op 't advijs van d' Heer Sigterman wegens de valuatie der geldspetien te Chormandel en Bengale. Signed (?) by J. Mossel. On a change in the reckoning of the exchange value of the pagoda, and its effects on Coromandel trade (with particulars as to the year 1738-9), especially the trade in copper, spices, cotton goods, tin, &c., having regard to foreign (mainly English and French) competition.