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Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Mr. John Simpson is called in, and examined as follows: What is your Business? That of an … a French Eighty-four and Two Frigates; but that does not bear on the Question. I cannot call to my Recollection; it … of Ships with which there is no Competition in the British Market, it is quite clear these Ships are built expressly for …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Chair. [617] Hollingworth Magniac Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You were an Agent at Canton, were … To any Extent? To a considerable Extent in Opium, and also in Goods to England latterly. Who were your … arrived in China) to 4,596 Chests, making a Total for the Market in 1829-30 of Chests 16,305. Of the Turkey Opium for …
Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Dr. Patrick Kelly is called in, and the Correspondence and Papers relating to Samples of Tea procured for the … Record the Proportion that the Civil and Judicial Expences bear to the whole Amount of the Revenue, but I do not …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. George Harris Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What Situation did you fill in … Labour. What Proportion did those Advances to the Ryots bear to the Expence of Manufacture? I can scarcely tell; I … am. Can you state the relative Estimation they bear in the Market? The Range of Qualities of Silk both from Bengal and …
Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Mr. William Brown is called in, and examined as follows: You are a Merchant or Agent trading to China? I am a Merchant and Agent trading to China and America. Did you ever export … large Quantities of Opium, and to let it remain for a Market in China, which those possessed of smaller Capitals, I …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Esquire, Accountant General of The East India Company, and James Cosmo Melvill Esquire, Auditor General of The East India Company, are called in and examined as follows: ( To Mr. Melvill.) Can you state the … was £117,606,336; of Military Charges, £137,253,467; and of Interest of Debt, £24,051,666. The Expences of St. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. James Cosmo Melvill Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Will you turn to No. 40 of … Statement of Commerce of British India with Great Britain and other Countries. Will you state what was the Amount of … the Hands of the Rajah, what Proportion did the Revenue bear to the Expenditure? I think the Revenue was about …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Sir James Brabazon Urmston is called in, and examined as follows: You were in the Company's Service in … I filled the several Stations in the Company's Factory, and was President of the Factory about Five Years in the … as Individuals who purchase them in the open Market? I think so, most certainly; they have the Chance of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Chair. Walter Stevenson Davidson Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Do you think the Existence … because a Number of eager Speculators would rush into the Market; but there is no Reason to suppose that that State of … in India; and I can with Truth, as I do with Pleasure, bear the strongest Testimony to the liberal Manner in which …
Journal of the House of Lords
… The Honourable Mount Stuart Elphinstone is called in, and examined as follows: You have been Governor of Bombay? I … I was first Four Years Assistant to the Judge at Benares, and in the College in Bengal; I then went as Assistant … the Chiefs themselves, and partly by the Relation they bear to the Guicowar. Are all those Chiefs connected with the …