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... returned to eight per cent . The Dutch East India Company , from 1730 to 1736 , divided twenty - five per cent . per annum upon the capital stock ; in 1736 , twenty per cent .; for the next three years , fifteen per cent . per annum ...
... returned to eight per cent . The Dutch East India Company , from 1730 to 1736 , divided twenty - five per cent . per annum upon the capital stock ; in 1736 , twenty per cent .; for the next three years , fifteen per cent . per annum ...
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... returned to France . Apprized of his knowledge and capacity , the French government turned its eyes upon him , as a man well qualified to aid in raising the colonies in the eastern seas from СНАР . 1 . 1746 . that state of depression 56 ...
... returned to France . Apprized of his knowledge and capacity , the French government turned its eyes upon him , as a man well qualified to aid in raising the colonies in the eastern seas from СНАР . 1 . 1746 . that state of depression 56 ...
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... returned to France in 1740 , disgusted with his treatment ; and fully determined to resign the go- vernment : But the minister refused his consent . is said that being asked by one of the Directors of the Company , how it was , that he ...
... returned to France in 1740 , disgusted with his treatment ; and fully determined to resign the go- vernment : But the minister refused his consent . is said that being asked by one of the Directors of the Company , how it was , that he ...
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... returned to the islands to wait for the de- claration of war between France and England . There he soon received the mortifying orders of the Com- pany to send home all the vessels under his com- mand . Upon this he again requested ...
... returned to the islands to wait for the de- claration of war between France and England . There he soon received the mortifying orders of the Com- pany to send home all the vessels under his com- mand . Upon this he again requested ...
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... Mergui , a port on the opposite coast ; and returned in the beginning of For the above details respecting Labourdonnais , see Mémoire , ut supra , pp . 10-92 . CHAP . 1 . BOOK IV 1746. His fleet was THE ENGLISH FLEET . 63.
... Mergui , a port on the opposite coast ; and returned in the beginning of For the above details respecting Labourdonnais , see Mémoire , ut supra , pp . 10-92 . CHAP . 1 . BOOK IV 1746. His fleet was THE ENGLISH FLEET . 63.
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Page 329 - A gentleman sends a Gomastah here to buy or sell; he immediately looks upon himself as sufficient to force every inhabitant either to buy his goods or sell him theirs; and on refusal (in case of non-capacity) a flogging or confinement immediately ensues. This is not sufficient even when willing, but a second force is made use of, which is to engross the different branches of trade to themselves and not to suffer any...
Page 362 - Your deliberations on the inland trade have laid open to us a scene of most cruel oppression; the poor of the country, who used always to deal in salt, beetlenut, and tobacco, are now deprived of their daily bread by the trade of the Europeans.
Page 335 - The conduct of the Company's servants upon this occasion," says James Mill in his History of British India, " furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame.
Page 164 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 165 - ... in hopes they would have reflected (after the first impulse of their panic was over) how cruel as well as shameful it was to leave their countrymen to the mercy of a barbarous enemy ; and for that reason we made no doubt they would have attempted to cover the retreat of those left behind, now they had secured their own : but we deceived ourselves ; and there never was a single effort made in the two days the fort held out after this desertion, to send a boat or vessel to bring off any part of...
Page 402 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.
Page 363 - Subah, as to them may appear most prudent, either by settling here at home the restrictions under which this trade ought to be carried on, or by referring...
Page 434 - Soubah ; that we have allotted him a stipend which must bje regularly paid in support of his dignity; and that though the revenues belong to the Company the territorial jurisdiction must still rest in the Chiefs of the country acting under him and this Presidency in conjunction.
Page 628 - I declare that I will not suffer Nuncomar to appear before the Board as my accuser. I know what belongs ' to the dignity and character of the first member of this administration. I will not sit at this Board in the character of a criminal. Nor do I acknowledge the members of this Board to be my judges.
Page 327 - A trade was carried on without payment of duties, in the prosecution of which infinite oppressions were committed. English agents or gomastahs, not contented with injuring the people, trampled on the authority of government, binding and punishing the Nabob's officers, whenever they presumed to interfere.