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Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Mr. William Brown is called in, and examined as follows: You are a Merchant or Agent trading to China? I am a Merchant and Agent trading to China and America. Did you ever export to China any Goods on your …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. James Cosmo Melvill Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Will you turn to No. 40 of … Statement of Commerce of British India with Great Britain and other Countries. Will you state what was the Amount of … Sterling? £26,935. Turn to the next Page, the same Item, and state what are the Exports from Bengal on account of The …
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… in the Chair. Sir James Brabazon Urmston is called in, and examined as follows: You were in the Company's Service in … I filled the several Stations in the Company's Factory, and was President of the Factory about Five Years in the … There have been Instances where they have individually and privately contracted for the Teas, but I believe …
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… the Chair. Walter Stevenson Davidson Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Do you think the Existence … in the habit of resorting to their Treasury every Season; and when it happened that they declined to draw either on India or on England, my Constituents and myself were deeply disappointed. Does not that Difficulty …
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… 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 … at Nagpoor, afterwards Acting Resident in Scindia's Camp, and then Envoy to Caubal; I was then Resident at Poonah, …
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? … in that Line of Business? Throughout my Life; for Seven-and-twenty Years. In your Business, are you acquainted with … of cleaning? A good deal so; the Cotton comes cleaner and more perfect than it used to do formerly. The Price very …
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… in the Chair. John Walter Sherer Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What was your Situation? I was the … Concerns; to keep them acquainted with the Receipt and Disbursements of the Country; to provide Funds for the Service in every Quarter; and to superintend the Accounts of all the Departments. If …
Journal of the House of Lords
… The Honourable Mount Stuart Elphinstone is called in, and further examined as follows: You stated in your Evidence … left which was for the Maintenance of the Chief himself and his immediate Followers. When the Chief was not a Member … with a Recommendation specifying which should be perpetual and which should be resumed, and on what Occasions. Can you …
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… in the Chair. Robert Rickards Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Will you turn to No. 2. of … is an Account of the Total Annual Amount of the Revenues and Charges of the several Presidencies in India from the … What appears upon that Account to be the Surplus Revenue and Surplus Charge for those Years? The Two last Columns of …
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… 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 … at Jungypore from the Year 1804 to the Year 1818, and then again from 1824 to 1829. In what Years were you in …