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… come into Practice in actual Employment. Do not a very great Variety of Usages prevail in the different Provinces? A very great many. There are hardly Two Provinces alike with respect … Manufacturer but to the Government? [180] Just so; but a great Proportion of the Salt consumed in Malabar is Foreign …
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… to private Individuals do you refer to? There are a great many belonging to private Individuals that are taken up … at the same Time? About the same Rate. Has there been any great Alteration in the Rate of Insurance since the Peace? … in London through Brokers, between whom there is always great Competition. I have seen lately a Ship done from here …
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… go out almost empty direct to China. Do the Merchants of Great Britain consign any Quantity of Goods direct to China … the Remittance in Tea which, in your Opinion, creates the great Difficulty in the Returns? The Want of some Returns. … have known it as high as 2,000 Dollars. Have you known so great a Variation in the Price of Malwa Opium? Not so great. …
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… At the Time we entered Candeish, the Arabs had gained very great Influence and Power in the Villages, as well as the Bheels. The latter had inspired great Terror by their Proceedings, and it became necessary, … of Influence. By whom were they selected? By myself; a great Number of Names were sent in, and I selected a Number …
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… 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 … and the Cultivation? Many do employ them. I had a great Dislike to employing European Assistants, because I …
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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 …
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… 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 …