Private trade with India.

(1) pp. 1-126, Memorandum by John Cochrane on India Trade and Shipping. (2) pp. 129-30, 377, J. Meheux to -- 5th Sept. 1800 and 9th April 1802 (Originals). (3) pp. 133-5, 139-40, John Tayler to Dundas 16th and 28th Oct. 1800 (Originals), relative to Memorial from East India Merchants; p. 137, Dundas to Tayler 18th Oct. 1800. (4) pp. 143-227, Memorandum by David Scott 10th Sept. 1800 on Dundas' letter of 2nd April relative to Private Trade. (5) pp. 231-49, Resolutions of Special Committee of Court of Directors upon Dundas' letters of 2nd April and 28th June 1800 relative to Private Trade; pp. 251-73, Proceedings of Court of Directors 4th Feb. 1801 on Report (January 1801) of above Committee; pp. 289-307, Dundas to Chairman 21st March 1801 on Court's Resolutions of 4th Feb. (6) pp. 275-88, Charles Grant to Dundas 17th March 1801 (Original), George Udny's letter of 15th Sept. 1800 to Lord Wellesley on Private Trade. (7) pp. 309-12, Memorial of Merchants and Agents for persons residing in the East Indies to the Board of Control 23rd July 1801, signed by Edmund Boehm & Co., Law, Bruce & Co., William & Horsley Palmer, Paxton Cockerell & Co., Prinsep & Saunders, R., W. & E. Lee, David Scott Junior & Co., Anderson & Stewart, Gillett & Edwards, Lubbock Colt & Co., John Forbes & James Amos & Co; pp. 313-5, Covering letter by same to Lord Lewisham 23rd July 1801; p. 317, W. Lennox to Dundas 30th July 1801 (Original), enclosing the above. (8) pp. 321-5, 353-75, Lord Dartmouth to David Scott (Chairman) 14th Aug. 1801 and 28th Jan. 1802, Differences between the Court of Directors and the Board of Control. (9) pp. 329-44, Thomas Henchman to Dundas 10th Sept. 1801 (Original), with Memorandum on Board of Control's powers over the Company in respect to the hiring of Ships. (10) pp. 345-51, Memorandum (not signed) on the Importance of the India Trade to Great Britain and the necessity of immediate measures to prevent its passing to the Continent. (11) pp. 381-485, Memoir on the India Trade, showing the prejudicial effects of interference with Private Traders. (12) pp. 487-662, Copy of Mr. Gurney's shorthand notes of the examinations of John Innes, Richard Campbell Bazett, Henry Trail, Henry Fawcett, John Bebb, John Woolmore and Grant Allen before a Committee of the House of Commons on East India Affairs presided over by Sir John Anstruther 6th May to 10th June 1809. (13) pp. 665-83, Memorandum of Reasons for opening the Trade of India with the ports of Great Britian and Ireland.

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