A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1810: With an Appendix, Containing a Variety of Particulars, and Useful Information Interesting to Those Concerned with East India Commerce |
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Page 41 - Be it hereby enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1. The term
Page 42 - that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Court of Directors of the said united company, on a public advertisement, with four weeks...
Page 36 - Provided also, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to...
Page 120 - Fowler, of the royal navy, late commander of the Porpoise, and passenger with me, having handsomely offered to go in the Ganges brig, and inspect them nearly, I afterwards sent her down likewise, and from their signals...
Page 40 - ... it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court of directors that such absence was occasioned by sickness or infirmity, or unless such person be permitted to return with his rank to India by a vote or resolution passed by way of ballot by three parts in four of the proprietors assembled in general court specially convened for that purpose, whereof eight days...
Page 120 - I re-called the look-out ships by signal, and formed the line of battle in close order. " As soon as the enemy could fetch in our wake, they put about; we kept on our course under an easy sail. At near sun-set they were close...
Page 65 - ... returning to Europe, and that the larboard third part of the great cabin, with the passage to the quarter gallery taken off, be appropriated to their accommodation. That the Commanders of the Company's extra ships shall be likewise constrained to receive on board one officer returning to Europe, of the before-mentioned description ; and that such officer be accommodated with a cabin on the starboard side, abaft the chief mate's cabin, and abreast of the spirit-room, of not less dimensions than...
Page 119 - Cargo had solicited it from the Select Committee. Our passage down the river was tedious, and the Fleet much dispersed; the Ships being under the directions of their several Chinese Pilots, I could not keep them collected as I wished.
Page 94 - ... To the widow, children, father or mother of every seaman that shall lose his life in the defence of the ship, as aforesaid, thirty pounds. To every seaman that shall lose a leg or arm, or both, in such defence, thirty pounds. To every seaman that shall receive any other wound, such sum of money as the said Court of Directors shall think fit, upon producing a certificate from their commander or superior officer, touching their merits. That every seaman so wounded in defence of the ship shall be...