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Journal of the House of Lords
… and especially for the Three last Years of the Export of Tea, as well as of other Articles specified, by the Americans … Some Ships that measure 1,200 Tons will not carry so much Tea by 100 Tons as others of the same Registered Tonnage, the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that leaves China, as the Company's Ships do, laden with Tea-the finest and the lightest Cargo in the World-must be a … lost on the Return Voyage; that was a 1,200 Ton Ship. A Tea Cargo is perhaps better adapted for rendering a Ship safe … why they should furnish Tonnage sufficient to bring Home Tea; but I have adverted to the lading of Ships only …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Produce and Manufactures to England, with the Exception of Tea? Yes, I believe he has. With the small additional Charge … Yes. It is therefore the Want of the Remittance in Tea which, in your Opinion, creates the great Difficulty in … the Moment, and enables the Mandarins to extort from the Dealers. Do the Russians import any on the Frontier? No, I …
Journal of the House of Lords
… and the Correspondence and Papers relating to Samples of Tea procured for the Foreign Office by His Majesty's Consuls … a Statement, shewing the Cost per Pound of the Samples of Tea received by the Commissioners for the Affairs of India … the Value affixed to the respective Samples by the London Tea Brokers, converting Foreign Weights and Monies into …
Journal of the House of Lords
… also abridged the Markets of Europe for the Consumption of Tea; and the Trade also, I apprehend, was injured by the … for the Duties at long Periods. The total Import of Tea into the British Provinces in North America by The East … affect the Trade of British Merchants to the Continent in Tea? Of course they would. Is that over-trading at an end, in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Trade Goods; Customs and Freight on those Goods; and the Tea Duties. Can you state what Sum under those different … in the Fifteen Years has been £193,299,826, including the Tea Duty. It has been from those large Commercial Funds …
Journal of the House of Lords
… to the Company by Contract? When the Quantity of Green Tea was not to be had under the Contract, there was scarcely any of that Tea to be had in the Market. I alluded, in my former Reply, … Knowledge, whether they are actually to any great Extent Dealers in Tea as their own Property, or Agents for the Sale …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of their not being permitted to make Remittances in Tea to this Country? Certainly, in a great degree; having no … the Monopoly of The East India Company in the Article of Tea, and is removed only at their Pleasure? Precisely so, as … wish generally the Trade to be confined to this Port. The Dealers, I think, are divided in Opinion; all of them would …