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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 …
Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Mr. Arthur Ryder is called in, and examined as follows: In what Occupation are you engaged? … Relation in point of Price does the best Indian Cotton bear to the best American? India Cotton, being short-stapled, … they send it in the most perfect State, and more fit for a Market of all others. The Brazilians have fallen off in their …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. John Walter Sherer Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What was your Situation? I was the … higher and sometimes lower, according to the State of the Market, or the Demand in China. Has the Demand in China … Deputation into that Country, did the Price of Malwa Opium bear a different Proportion to the Bahar Opium to that it has …
Journal of the House of Lords
… The Honourable Mount Stuart Elphinstone is called in, and further examined as follows: You stated in your Evidence … Presidency. Do you know what Proportion the Transit Duties bear to the whole Amount of that levied under the Head of … No doubt it would. Would not in that Case the Sea Customs bear a moderate Increase of Duty? They clearly would bear an …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Robert Rickards Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Will you turn to No. 2. of … it is clear that the Commercial Department ought to bear the Burden of that Loan, and not the Territorial. If … the Sale of Goods in this Country, they must be content to bear that Loss, more especially as the Law leaves the Mode of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. The Honourable Andrew Ramsay is called in, and examined as follows: What were the various Situations you … Commercial Department, Six Years in the Salt Department, and about Two Years in the Revenue Department. I was … Company enabled them to command all the best Silk in the Market? I believe, as much as they wished to procure they …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. William Chaplin Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What Situation have you filled in … in the Southern Mahratta Country as Principal Collector and Political Agent, where I succeeded Sir Thomas Munro, on … Cloth, and to undersell the Native Weavers in their own Market. Have British Manufactures supplanted the Manufactures …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. John William Ricketts Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You are a Native of Calcutta? I am. … of common Soldiers, and Persons of very low Condition, bear to the more educated Class of which you have spoken? … been the former Tenant or Proprietor; he came into the Market in the same Manner as other Persons, but not in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Patrick Kelly LL.D. is called in, and further examined as follows: Have you completed the … in the Markets of Europe, and unknown even in the Market of Calcutta. Has European Capital ever been employed … is spun by Hand in India. Do you know whether it would bear being spun by Machinery? I am not acquainted with the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Francis Hastings Toone Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: Have you been in China? I have been. … to do. Do you find that the Teas you purchase in the open Market have been dearer than those you purchased by Contract? … restore them to a Situation of Efficiency, that they might bear Competition with the senior and richer Merchants. He was …