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Journal of the House of Lords
… carried on in China? No; but they have the Cotton and Silk, which answer their Purpose. Do not the higher Ranks …
Journal of the House of Lords
… They are very different. Can you state the Difference? On Silk, which is, upon the Average, Threefold the Value of … s. d. s. d. Piece Goods, Cotton, White, Coloured and Mixed Silk and Cotton Passing Company's Sales By Private Bargain 1 10 0 0 0 1 per Bale. 1 5 0 Piece Goods, Silk Passing Company's Sales By Private Bargain 1 0 0 0 0 1 …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Commerce, and Inspector of Company's Investments of Silk and Piece Goods. Are you aware of the different Price, … Will you explain in what Mode the Company procure the Silk for their Investment for Europe and for China? [30] They send no Silk to China. The Company's Investment is provided by the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that Question; but Sugar and Cotton occur to me. Could Silk? There is not much Silk produced under Bombay at present, but I think that it …
Journal of the House of Lords
… from 1804 to 1818 my Duties were entirely confined to the Silk Investment. Were you concerned in the Sale of the … the Company large Establishments for the Purpose of the Silk Manufacture? Very large; I think about Twelve Stations, … others where Piece Goods are made. Is the Manufacture of Silk Goods continued at those Factories? It was when I left …
Journal of the House of Lords
… be manufactured; but the better Description of Cotton and Silk Cloths, and the finer Articles of the Fabric of Indian … and confined to the most subordinate Situations. [286] Is Silk one of the Articles cultivated in those Parts of India … considerable Extent. I have often seen Natives in quilted Silk Jackets, which I believe to be of English Manufacture. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… which the Country Trade carries back to India? Tea, Sugar, Silk, Drugs of various kinds: the Annual Statements of the … Ships purchase any other Articles than Teas? Drugs, Raw Silk and Nankeens are the principal Articles. Do they … but Teas, have they not? So I understand. As regards Silk Manufactured Goods, I have heard American Agents state …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Licence from Government, 485 to 489. Durant, Enoch, Esq. a Silk Broker in London, 465 to 471. East, Sir Edw. Hyde, Bart. … Commerce, and Inspector of Company's Investments of Silk and Piece Goods, 27 to 30. Lloyd, Thomas Gore, Esq. … of Malabar, 178 to 187. Wilson, Stephen, Esq. late a Silk Manufacturer, 405 to 414. Wood, Henry, Esq. late …
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