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Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.

English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.

Heads and faces of twenty men facing one another in pairs. Coloured aquatint with etching.

Clocks: a bracket clock formerly in the possession of the East India Company. Process print.

A sepoy in the service of the East India Company, with a woman (courtesan?) on the right. Gouache, 18--.

The effects to be expected from the East India Bill, upon the constitution of Great Britain, if passed into a law. By William Pulteney, Esq.

The adjourned debate, which took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street on Thursday, October 23, 1794. On the question for presenting an address to His Majesty, offering to raise three regiments for the publick service. Reported by William Woodfall.

The debates at the East-India-House, on Wednesday, the 17th of December, 1794, on the adjourned consideration of Mr. Twining's motion, "that no director be allowed to carry on any trade or commerce to or from India, directly or indirectly, either as principal or agent." Reported by William Woodfall,

Report from the Committee of proprietors, appointed on the 1st of December, 1772, by the general court of the United East-India Company, to enquire into the present state and condition of the Company's affairs.

A caution to the directors of the East-India Company, with regard to their making the midsummer dividend of five per cent. without due attention to a late Act of Parliament, and a by-law of their own.

The body of Tippu Sultan is laid out and mourned by a woman and servants. Stipple engraving by L. Schiavonetti, 1801, after R.K. Porter.

Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.

An account of the arrears due to the army in Bengal and in Oude, on the 1st December 1781; And also the arrears due to Colonel Muirs's detachment to the Bengal army acting under General Goddard, in Guzzerat; and to the Bengal detachment serving under the command of Colonel Pearse, in the Carnatic. No.3.

The debates at the Quarterly General Court held at the East India House, on Wednesday, March 20, 1799, on a motion to vote the thanks of the court to Admira Lord Nelson, For the important services he had rendered to the East India Company; by the decisive victory over the French Fleet, near the Mouth of the Nile, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3d of August last, and to recommend it to the court of directors to take those services into consideration, and present to Lord Nelson some valuable and appropriate acknowledgment, in testimony of the grateful sense the company entertain of the important benefits resulting to them from His Lordships magnanimous conduct on that glorious event. And also, on a motion for printing all papers which have been under the consideration of the court of directors relating to illicit trade to and from India; with the interesting debate that took place on the subject of Mr. Bosanquet's (the chairman) charges against David Scott, Esq. and others, with the amendment moved and carried. Reported by William Woodfall.

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The adjourned debate, which took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street on Thursday, October 23, 1794. On the question for presenting an address to His Majesty, offering to raise three regiments for the publick service. Reported by William Woodfall.

The debates at the East-India-House, on Wednesday, the 17th of December, 1794, on the adjourned consideration of Mr. Twining's motion, "that no director be allowed to carry on any trade or commerce to or from India, directly or indirectly, either as principal or agent." Reported by William Woodfall,

Report from the Committee of proprietors, appointed on the 1st of December, 1772, by the general court of the United East-India Company, to enquire into the present state and condition of the Company's affairs.