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Letters relating to the East India Company. Containing, I. A letter to Sir J- L-, on dividing annuities from the trading stock, and giving a benefit to the proprietors, instead of their hazard of loss and gain by trading. II. A letter to the people of Britain, on the importance of the East India trade; where the Company trades to, and where they do not; how the present trade may be extended; that the proprietors and the company ought not to be injur'd. III. A letter to Miss A- S-, one of the proprietors of the East India sock, mutiny and desertion bill, and the heroes of Leadenhall-Street. IV. A letter to the Hon. ***.***, Esq; one of the *** of ***, on the importance of the Indian trade, and of the commodities of the places where the company does not trade to. V. A letter to - B-. Esq; one of the Aldermen of the city of London; on the erecting Madarass and it dependencies into a colony, with a King's Governor, council and assembly; and St. Helena and Bombay, in like manner, if ever the East India Company should deliver them up to the government. VI. A letter to J. S. merchant in Edinburgh. In answer to a question, whether people from Edinburgh and Glasgow may send ships, and trade to the Philippian islands and Japan?
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The account of the true market-price of wheat, and malt, at Windsor, for 100 years. - Began & publish'd by Wm. Fleetwood Bp. of Ely from 1646. to 1706. And since continued in the same manner.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: 1746?]- Books
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Hints and cautions, for the information of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor Of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, In the County of Middlesex: and, Rules, Orders, and Regulations for Maintaining, Governing, Employing, and Regulating the said Poor; Made by the Vestry of the said Parishes, By virtue and in pursuance of the Statute 14 Geo. 3. c. 62.
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)Date: [1797]- Books
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The just limitation of slavery in the laws of God, compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders. By Granville Sharp. With a copious appendix: Containing, An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Thompson's Tract in favour of the African Slave Trade. - Letters concerning the lineal Descent of the Negroes from the Sons of Ham. - The Spanish Regulations for the gradual Enfranchisement of Slaves. - A Proposal on the same Principles for the gradual Enfranchisement of Slaves in America. - Reports of Determinations in the several Courts of Law against Slavery, &c.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A short treatise on the unfair purchase of the slaves, and their barbarous usage from Africa to the West Indies. Their cruel Treatment in the West Indies. That the slave trade is a disgrace to rational humanity, but more especially to Christianity. That the trade is abolishable only by an Act of Parliament: and As the House of Commons have agreed, it is hoped the House of Lords will concur as soon as Opportunity suits. - To discipline the Slaves to do their Work with little or no Flogging. - That Sugar is dear only from the Greatness of the Consumption; and that if we would have Sugar more cheap and plentiful, the new Plantations in Africa must be properly encouraged.
Date: 1794