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Considerations on the danger and impolicy of laying open the trade with India and China : including an examination of the objections commonly urged against the East India Company's commercial and financial management

Title
Considerations on the danger and impolicy of laying open the trade with India and China : including an examination of the objections commonly urged against the East India Company's commercial and financial management
Author/Creator
Cossim, author
Publisher
printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown
Publisher Date
1812.
Note
The substance of a series of letters which appeared in the Morning Chronicle in the course of last summer [1812], under the signature of Cossim -- third preliminary page.
Information about Macao : pages 74-75. "To this day the english factory, after completing their sales and purchases at Hong, retire to Macao, a small settlement belonging to the Portuguese, afraid of awakening the suspicion of the Chinese Government, or involving themselves in disputes with its subjects." ... "In 1782, a ship supposed to be Spanish property, and to have a Dutch cargo on board, bound from Macao to Manilla, was seized by Captain M'Lary, commanding a country ship from Bengal. The Governor of Macao, in the first instance, resented this infraction of the neutrality of his port, by imprisoning the aggressor, and fining him to the amount of 70,000 dollars..."
Subject
East India Company
Great Britain--Commerce
India--Commerce
China--Commerce
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