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Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. John Cotton Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What has been your Situation? My … had any Operation upon that Part of the Country? I cannot say that it had. The Property is very much divided in that … Can you state to what Extent they were carried? I should say that very nearly Two Thirds of the District had, in the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Sir Thomas Strange is called in, and further examined as follows: Has it occurred to you that … Silk in the Manufacture of similar Articles? I think I may say that I have used them both in the Manufacture of almost … Silk come from any Part of India, except Bengal? I cannot say. Can you describe the peculiar Quality of Indian Silk …
Journal of the House of Lords
… following Papers are delivered in by Sir Thomas Strange, and are read: Extract of a Letter from The Right Honourable … any Duty. With regard to that of a Judge, I do not say that it is a Maxim with them, that ex quovis ligno fit … called Zillahs. Without Book or Papers here, I cannot say off hand how many there are of each belonging to the …
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… you been there? I have been there in the Situation of Mate and Commander of a Ship, and Agent for the Transaction of … Merchants. In purchasing a small Quantity of Goods, say from 1,000 to 2,000 Pounds Worth, it would generally be … I think more generally upon the Outward Cargo. I should say that if the Proceeds of the Outward Cargo were returned …
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… in the Chair. James Cosmo Melvill Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: What have you to lay before … local Usages: even in Districts, or Counties, if I may so say, in the same Province, there are various Customs. The … of the different Branches of Native Law? I should say there were certainly some competent Authorities amongst …
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 … to work her? If the Question is meant in Action, I should say the whole of the Crew would not be more than would be … mostly carry on their Main Decks Eighteenpounders; I dare say they do. I have seen some Eighteenpounders on board some …
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 … and Cotton Yarns, but to what Extent I am unable to say. During the whole of that Period it would have been … one Time, but not at the Time I was in China. Should you say that, on the Average, the Price of Opium had fallen Fifty …
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… President in the Chair. Dr. Patrick Kelly is called in, and the Correspondence and Papers relating to Samples of Tea … Case where a Decree was reversed; nor can I, at this Time, say that I recollect any Case of Investigation of the kind. … acquitted him accordingly, in spite of any thing I could say; for I considered that having gone off with his Brother, …
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… in the Chair. Sir Alexander Johnston is called in, and makes the following Statement: I was asked, on the former … I was strongly in favour of it, but I cannot presume to say that it originated with me; it originated with the People themselves; that is to say, with the Jurymen who were Proprietors of Slaves. The …
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 … made Advances to the Cultivators? That I cannot accurately say; my Cultivation was increased thereby in the Villages … that I got in Lease; what the Proportion was, I cannot say at all. What were the Stipulations on each Side in any of …