The volume covers the seventeenth century. In his preface, dated 1 July 1823, Pratt states-"When a Collection of Historic Materials on the China Trade was made in 1821, to serve as a Basis for a Series of Papers to be laid before the Legislature, the Shortness of the Time given for preparing the ...
Collections relative to China, and to intercourse of the English with that Empire.
Scope & Content:
The collections cover 1623-1699 and were probably prepared for Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, during Parliamentary enquiries into the East India trade around 1800. They also include copies of material on Taiwan(1670), Japan (1664-74), Mindanao (1684-86), Borneo, Manila and the P...
Materials for a history of a series of attempts, first by the English and afterwards by the United East India Company, to acquire & establish a trade at the port of Chusan in China from the year 1699 to 1759. Extracted from the Company's Records.
