 | James Cleland - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1816 - 542 pages
...against them, and they were charged with practising frauds upon the revenue in the conducting of their business. The matter in 1721, underwent a strict examination...proceed from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard t« the interests of trade, or to the King's revenue." But the affair was not allowed to rest here,... | |
 | James Cleland - 1820 - 318 pages
...the following words:—" The com" plaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, White•** haven, &c. are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of " envy, and not from a regard to the interest of trade, or " the King's revenue." As the tobacco trade was suspended in 1783, at the breaking... | |
 | James Pagan - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1847 - 266 pages
...finding — " That the complaints of the merchants of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Whitehaven, <kc., are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy,...the interests of trade, or to the king's revenue. " The English merchants, however, were far from being satisfied with this finding and reproof; and,... | |
 | 1865 - 642 pages
...complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, and Whitehaven were groundless, and that they proceeded from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interest of trade or the king's revenue.' That decision was not at all to the liking of the southern... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1866 - 468 pages
...complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, and Whitehaven were groundless, and that they proceeded from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interest of trade or the King's revenue.' That decision was not at all to the liking of the southern... | |
 | George MacGregor - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1881 - 656 pages
...result that the Lords of the Treasury found " that the complaints of the merchants of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Whitehaven, &c., are groundless, and proceed...and not from a regard to the interests of trade, or of the king's revenue." The English merchants appealed to Parliament, and Commissioners from the House... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - Scotland - 1883 - 330 pages
...Treasury finding ' that the complaints of the merchants of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Whitehaven, etc., are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy,...and not from a regard to the interests of trade or of the King's revenue.' The English merchants not satisfied with this finding and rebuke, made in the... | |
 | George Stewart (of Glasgow.) - Glasgow - 1883 - 208 pages
...following sentence: — ' That the complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, and Whitehaven, are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interest of trade, or of the King's Revenue.'" Complaints were afterwards brought before Parliament... | |
 | 1918 - 546 pages
...complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool and Whitehaven were groundless, and that they proceeded from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interests of trade, or of the King's revenue." But the malice of these gentlemen ended not here. They brought the complaint... | |
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That the complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, Whitehaven, &c. are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interests of trade, or to the King's revenue. 