Excerpt from Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the Honourable House of Commons: Appointed for the Purpose of Taking the Examination of Such Witnesses as Be Ordered by the House to Attend the Committee of the Whole House, on the Affairs of the East-India Company, and to Report the Minutes of Such Evidence From Time to Time Do you not think. That in the event of a free trade, the governments would be continually pressed for such licences by traders, who could not sell their goods at the presidencies i - In the natural persuasion of most men, that they could do their business better in their own persons than by agents, I think it is very likely that there would be that importunity. 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.