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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.
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.
"Upon the Whole, I will beg Leave to tell what is really my Opinion: It is, that it be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately." A late celebrated Speech. LONDON: Printed for George Kearsly , in Ludgate-Street. MDCCLXVII....
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A CAUTION TO THE DIRECTORS, &c.
A CAUTION TO THE DIRECTORS, &c.
Gentlemen , Perhaps there never was such a necessity, for an address to you upon the subject of caution , since the East-India company was established, as at present.—Your great successes in India, have drawn upon you the envy of your own countrymen, as well as the other European powers; the great increase of your dividend, has alarmed the proprietors of other funds for their own property; the differences among yourselves, and your fellow-proprietors, have furnished this envy, and these fears, w
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