Considerations Relative to the Renewal of the East-India Company's CharterJ.M. Richardson, 1830 - 75 páginas |
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annually army assets bearing Interest Bengal Berar Berkeley Berkeley Bills of exchange Board of Control Bohea Bombay Britain British power Calcutta CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Canton Cape cent charges charter civil conquest consumption of tea Cotton Court of Directors DEBTS IN INDIA ditto dividend Dollars dominions East Indies East-India Company empire ending 5th January England European exclusive trade foreign Free Trade freight and demurrage Funds Hindoo Holkar Hyder Ali imported Indies and China justice Lord Wellesley Madhoo Mahratta Majesty's Government Malacca Mauritius ment Nabob Nizam Number officers Opium Paishwah pany Parliament payment pieces political ports price of tea Prince of Wales's private merchants private trade Privilege Trade PRODUCE OF INDIA racter Rajah of Berar renewal Scindia Ships sold SPECIES OF MERCHANDIZE TERRITORIAL BRANCH territorial revenue tion Tonnage trade to China trade to India UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unrefined Wales's Island WILLIAM IRVING
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Página 17 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Página 42 - Next let us inquire in what relation the Company and the public stand in respect to the trade to India, exclusive of China. In 1813 the trade to India was thrown open to private merchants, but was still, in some measure, impeded by enactments which required that all ships passing to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope should exceed 350 tons of burthen, and which rendered it necessary to procure a license to trade from the Court of Directors, or, upon their refusal, from the Board of Control. This...
Página 21 - ... Commander-in-Chief may be a member of Council, without regard to the term of his residence ; but no civil servant of the Company can become member of Council until he has served ten years in India. The Government of Calcutta is supreme over the other governments in matters relating to peace, war, and revenue. All the proceedings of the governments in India must be recorded by minutes, with a statement of the reasons upon which they have been founded, for the purpose of checking mal-administration....
Página 6 - Elizabeth granted a monopoly of trade between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan...
Página 24 - ... existing establishments; to encourage the diffusion of education and useful knowledge ; and to advance the general prosperity and happiness of the British empire in India. This invitation is addressed to all native gentlemen, landholders, merchants, and others; to all Europeans, both in and out of the service, including that useful and respectable body of men, the indigo planters, who from their uninterrupted residence in the Mofussil, have peculiar opportunities of forming an opinion upon some...