Report From The Select Committee On The Trade With China PDF Download

Excerpt from Reports From the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East-India Company: China Trade [The Figures in the Margin denote the numbers of the Questions which gave rise to the Evidence upon the several points; and in the edition printed by order of the Honourable House of Commons, the numbers from 3400 to 3999 having been repeated by mistake, those numbers in the present edition are distinguished by having the letter a annexed to the second series, and are referred to accordingly.] The Select Committee appointed to inquire into I the present state of the Affairs of the East-India Company, and into the Trade between Great Britain, the East-Indies, and China, and to report their Observations thereupon to the House; having from time to time reported the Minutes of Evidence, and having now closed that part of the inquiry which respects the China Trade, deem it expedient to place before the House a Summary of all the Evidence which has been taken upon that subject. Your Committee directed their attention in the first instance to the papers relating to the finances of India, laid before the House in February last by the King's command; but having found it necessary to call for further statements, your Committee determined to proceed to an examination of the state of the trade with China, postponing, until that should be completed, their inquiry into the Company's finances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.