Extracts from correspondence with Penang 1805-08 following the EIC's orders of 18 Apr 1805 on land grants, the state of cultivation and its harmful effects.
Memoir of the East India Company's intercourse with China.
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The compilation was made during the negotiations for the 1833 renewal of the Company's charter. Its preamble states - "The Chairman and Deputy Chairman, considering that it will be acceptable to the Court at the present period to possess a consecutive statement of the circumstances under which th...
Factory Syam. Register of consultations and other papers of importance begun Anno 1683.
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Diary and consultations of William Strangh, sent from London (with Thomas Yale) as commissioner to investigate the affairs of the Siam factory, 1 Sep-28 Nov 1683.
Duplicate letters written by Pringle on intelligence on French at Mauritius and Réunion; damage to cargo of EIC ships; complaints of passengers against Cpt Masson of Ann; EIC seamen required by Navy; preparation of EIC ships to leave for St Helena on convoy; deserters from EIC ships
Duplicate letters received on equipment, stores and supplies for EIC ships to transport troops; instructions from Govt of Bengal for assistance to expeditionary force in capture of Mauritius; preparations for expedition to Mauritius and Réunion; stores supplied for squadron off Mauritius; arming ...
Statement of expences incurred and losses sustained by Francis Fynn late Proprietor of the British Hotel in Cape Town in consequence of his having been carried away from that settlement in the month of December 1807 by Captain Eastfield of the Honourable Company's Ship Admiral Gardner
Duplicate letter from assistant Agent Daniel Cloete to Dart on passages to India for shipwrecked Lascars from Emma; accounts for insane patients on Agamemnon; arrival of good from St Helena on Lady Raffles; petition of widow of late George Francis Grand