The East India Company was established 1600, their stock then consisting
of £72,000, when they fitted out four ships, and meeting with success,
they have continued ever since; in 1683, India Stock sold from 360 to
500 per cent. A new company was established in 1698; re-established, and
the two united, 1700, agreed to give government £400,000. per annum, for
four years, on condition they might continue unmolested, 1769. In 1773,
in great confusion, and applied to parliament for assistance; judges
sent from England by government, faithfully to administer the laws there
to the company's servants, 1774, April 2nd.