A Letter From George Dodwell Esq To The Proprietors Of East India Stock Relative To His Claims On The East India Company

Author : George Dodwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267244720
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book A Letter From George Dodwell, Esq. To the Proprietors of East India Stock, Relative to His Claims on the East India Company written by George Dodwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter From George Dodwell, Esq. To the Proprietors of East India Stock, Relative to His Claims on the East India Company: With an Appendix, Containing Some Original Papers In July 1765, the Governor and Council at niadral's agreed with Mr. Kerr, to take up on freight a'fhip of 365 tons, called the Patty, for a voyage to the ifland of Sboloo and back again. The objects of the voyage were to fettle the Ball India Company's accounts with the people of Sooloo; and to brihg back to Madrafs fuch of the Company's efieas as could be collected, to gether with fome Seapoys, who had been left 'at 800100 on their return from the liege of Manilla, at the conclu fion of the late war, and were under the command of Captain Des Plans, a native of Switierland, who hazl previoufly been an oflicer in a corps of French deferters at Manilla. I was applied to by the Governor and Council to undertake the voyage, as commander of the lhip, and as agent te the Company'; and being anifi ous to efiablifh a connection with the Company, I se cepted of the offer, and gave up a very advantageous voyage to Pegu, in a fhip, of which I was commander, fupercargo, and part owner. There'was no written agreement as to the terms on which I was to perform this voyage, except a covenant in the charter party, that the Company {hould pay me and my oflicers at the rate of 1000 Arcot rupees a month, for the purchafe of that part oi the tonnage, which is called the privilege, and otherwife might have been claimed by us for private trade. But I was informed by letter from the fecretary to the Governor and Council, that I was to vie'tual the tr00ps from the time of their embarkatiqn; and I un derflood, that I was to have the ufual batta or fea alf lowance for defraying the'expence of Vielualling. I alfo underflood, that l was to have a (atisfaelion for my trouble as agent to the Company, fuch as had been paid to others, charged with like commflions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.