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Journal of the House of Lords
… There is scarcely any European Portuguese, but a great many Descendants from them. [215] What is the Character … Upon the whole their Character is very good, depending a great deal upon the Efficiency and the Activity of their … Government. Are they much employed in Offices? Yes; a great many of the Writers in all the Public Offices are …
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… took large Farms, though in the Names of Servants, to the great Danger of Loss, at Times, putting ourselves so much … myself as Farms, that the Improvement was always extremely great; the Villages I had in Hand increased in Value from Two … at those Village Schools? Merely a little Writing, and reading Bengalee, and keeping Accounts. Did you observe any …
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… you think that The East India Company, having so very great a Capital engaged in that Trade, could carry it on with … the Management of his Concerns, from Persons managing the great Capital of a Company, who, whatever may be the Out-turn … Articles been exported of late Years? I think not to any great Extent. I understand they are trying Cotton Yarns in …
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… Years. Can you state what Circumstances have produced so great a Deficiency during the last Four Years? The Total … consequence of the Malwa Opium Arrangements, which is in a great measure nominal. Can you account for the Charges on the …
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… find there a Statement of Commerce of British India with Great Britain and other Countries. Will you state what was the Amount of Import into Bengal from Great Britain in the Year 1826-27, stating it in Pounds … from Bengal on account of The East India Company to Great Britain? £1,718,890. What do you understand by the Term …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in China, particularly during my Chiefship, there was a great Defalcation in the Quantity of the Green Teas: that … to an Insolvent in order to place him in a Situation of great Wealth and more Respectability? [654] I conceive, that … than they would have otherwise possessed? It is the great Combination of the Company's Influence, if I may use …
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… make Remittances in Tea to this Country? Certainly, in a great degree; having no Investment to provide for Europe, we … I really cannot enumerate them. They have not been to any great Extent? No, I think not; principally by the Officers of … an Extent sufficient much to attract the Attention of the great Houses in India. What were the chief Articles consigned …
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… where Robbers can find Refuge, it is good; but there is a great Want of Public Spirit in the People, and they are … where they may get some Instruction; but there is a very great Deficiency of Means for educating them. The Sudder … 1824. My general Impression from them is, that as far as reading and writing go, though far from being so extensive as …
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… after One Year's Growth. Does it appear to you that any great Improvements have been made in the Process of cleaning? … of Cotton is produced from it. Has there been a great Variety in the Species of Cotton introduced from … to Fifteen Pence per Pound. To what do you attribute the great Inferiority of Price of the Indian Cotton? It is …
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… reported in the Reports at the India House; it requires a great deal of Detail to do so; they are fully explained in … whether, previous to the Formation of those Treaties, any great Extension of the Cultivation of Opium had taken place … Had the Prices been such as to encourage Cultivation to a great Extent? Certainly. You are aware that since you have …