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Journal of the House of Lords
… know any thing of the Quality of it, as compared with the American Tobacco? All I can say is, that on the Western Coast …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of 500 Tons require? About Six Men to the Hundred. Are the American Ships built with reference to the Cargo? They are … China? I think not great. We have lately found the South American Ports sending out Ships well armed; and our …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You are an American Merchant, are you not? I am an American; I have resided here for the last Twelve Years as a … a Loss; last Year it was rather a losing Trade. Has the American Trade with China, as far as it has been conducted in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… and examined as follows: What is your Profession? I am an American Merchant. Are you an American? I am. Are you a Commission Merchant? I am. A … engaged in the Export to China of British Manufactures on American Account? I was the first to ship on the Account of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… nearly an Annual; but the best Description of Cotton, the American Cotton, does not bear, I believe, for Two or Three …
Journal of the House of Lords
… British Manufactures at a cheaper Rate to China than the American Merchants can now? I should suppose they could be … our Merchant Vessels as cheap as the Americans do now. The American Merchants having now the Means of sending their … to China in my own Ship than I could freight them in an American, and I should prefer doing so to trading under a …
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… unoccupied? Those Ships which go direct to China; but the American Ships, though they carry Dollars, they occupy no … China. I don't mention it as a general Rule, but the American generally leaves his own Country provided with … Yes; I conceive the Free Trade has been the Ruin of the American Trade altogether. They had ceased almost entirely to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Americans; in fact, almost entirely in the Hands of one American House, who have nearly a Monopoly of it in China. By … India Company, as a trading Company at Canton? I think the American Trade in Teas did derive a great Advantage from the … I do not think the Company's Charter prohibits that. Do American Ships frequently arrive at Canton from South …
Journal of the House of Lords
… alone would not probably have produced much Effect on the American Trade? No, I do not think that that Circumstance … Import of Teas to the Continent of Europe might affect the American Trade, they would likewise, if the Trade were open, … Have you any Knowledge of the Expence of navigating American and British Ships? Not of British Ships; but I know …
Journal of the House of Lords
… on Three per Cent. Stock; Remittance from the North American Colonies; Sale Proceeds of Private Trade Goods; …