Letter to Mr B About East India Company Directors
A Constant Proprietor writes candidly to Mr B about abuses in the East India Company direction. He accuses certain directors of self interest and manipulation, questions motives behind patronage and elections, and urges fair rules for selecting directors in the trade. He defends longstanding proprietors and critiques those advancing private aims at the company’s expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Fland
India
English East-India Company
England
Anonymous Letter to East-India Stock Proprietors
A correspondent adopts a satirical tone addressing East-India Stock holders. He recounts an imagined tea sale with illicit traders and urges voters to reject self interested candidates in the upcoming election. The letter pledges caution about private interests overruling community welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sa__turday
Daily Post
A. B
Port News: Ships Arrive and Depart in Downs and Gravesend
March 13 Port News lists outward-bound ships put back and new arrivals in the Downs including the Heathcote and Cape bound for East India and others such as Industry Knowler and Golden Fleece from Oporto. Gravesend reports arrivals from Petersburgh Canaries Galipoly Malaga Seville Bilboa Calais Belfast Carolina Guernsey and more, with wind south west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Canaries
Fanny
Miller
Galipoly
Margaret
Thompson
Malaga
Dispatch
Lee
Betty
Sprowles
Seville
Neustro Senora Delcarmen
Puerto
Bilboa
Boston
Dion
Calais
Linnendraper
Hamilton
Belfast
Stubbing
Barns
Carolina
Buck
Guernsey
Duke of Athol takes House of Lords seat in London
London reports detail the Duke of Athol securing the Barony of Lord Strange by right as Great Grandson and heir to James Lord Strange. Proclamations for a Scotland-wide peer election follow. Also covered are ward elections, funerals, merchant deaths, pirate executions, and the South Sea Company seeking authority to pay annuities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janes Duke of
Black Inith’s
Queenhithe
John Thompson
Robert Westley
Alsop
Deceas
Countess of Ancrim
Earl Ancrim
Marquess of Lothian
Pailmall
Cheapside
Needham
Prince of Wales
Cornhill
Joseph Kellington
Hard Ware
Lumley
General Lumley
Earl of Scarborough
Rand
Harlow
Essex
Wisemans
William Wiseman
Canfield Hall
John Potts
St. Peter’s Cornhill
South-Sea Company
Georgia
Newgate
Hartley
Williams and Johnson
Coyle
Sennet
Erith
Gloucester
Thomas Lee
John Curtis
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A.B
Iam
Sir
Port News
London
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