Debates at the East-India house, in the several general courts of proprietors of East-India stock, on the subject of pensions, by an impartial reporter |
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Act of Parliament affairs Alder amendment annuity annum argument Atkins begged Board of Control called Chair Chairman circumstances claim Company's conduct consideration considered Court of Directors Court of Proprietors Crown debts duty Earl of Buckinghamshire East-India Company favour feeling forward give grant Hastings's hear Henry Dundas honourable and learned honourable friend honourable Gen honourable Gentleman honourable Proprietor hoped Horace Twiss Howorth Hume Impey India Company justice Kinnard late Lord Melville learned Gentleman letter liberality Lord Mel Lord Melville's Lord Wellesley Lordship Marquis Wellesley measure ment merits motion Mr.Howorth Mr.Lowndes Mr.P.Moore noble Lord noble Marquis observed occasion opinion pany pension persons Pitt present Lord Melville President prietors principle proceeding proposed proposition question received recollected recommended remuneration resolution respect reward salary servants shew Sir HUGH INGLIS Sir John Malcolm situation speech sum of money thought tion tleman Twiss vote Warren Hastings Weyland wished worthy Alderman
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Page 318 - Currie) stated, the court had been made special for the ; purpose of laying before the proprietors a resolution...
Page 258 - Companies is in fact a repetition of the relationship which formerly subsisted between the President of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors. It...
Page 318 - GENERAL Court of Proprietors of East India stock was this day held at the House of the Company in Leadenhall-s'treet, pursuant to an adjournment from the 21st of December last.
Page 6 - Resolved unanimously, that this court, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the ease of Warren Hastings, Esq., formerly Governor-general, and the important services rendered by him to the Company, is of opinion, that the annuity granted the said Warren Hastings, for the term of 28 years and a half, from the 24th of June 1785, of 4000/., which expired on the 25th...
Page 31 - ... every wrong-doer is bound to put the party injured, so far as the nature of the case allows, in the same situation in which he would have stood if the wrong had not been done. All this is very intelligible.
Page 352 - East-Indies to examine the votes delivered in this day, " for the determination by ballot of the following question, viz. " That this Court do confirm the unanimous...
Page 144 - ... he did not wish to take up the time of the court, he had no objection to their going on with their observations.
Page 301 - He concluded with apologizing for having taken up so much of the time of the "house...
Page 153 - ONE, 9th December, 1940 SIR: I have the honour to inform you that in order to enable the Government of the United States of America to establish in the United States a reserve of Australian wool against a possible emergency shortage of wool supplies in the United States, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are prepared to enter into an agreement with...
Page 185 - ... legislation, are nearly allied to a deep conviction of the necessary incompleteness of all system, and of the necessity for constant watchfulness to avoid the application of a formula to cases not comprehended in its proof. PS Since this essay left the hands of the writer, the first report of the committee of the House of Commons appointed to investigate the causes of the last crisis has been laid on the table of the House. It states that, after a careful review of the evidence, the committee...