A
CAUTION
TO THE
DIRECTORS
OF THE
EAST-INDIA COMPANY,
With regard to their making the
Midsummer Dividend of Five per Cent.
WITHOUT
Due Attention to a late ACT of PARLIAMENT, and a BY-LAW of their own.
"Upon the Whole, I will beg Leave to tell what is really my Opinion: It is, that it be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately."
_A late celebrated Speech._
LONDON:
Printed for GEORGE KEARSLY, in Ludgate-Street.
MDCCLXVII.
A
CAUTION
TO THE
DIRECTORS, &c.
GENTLEMEN,
Perhaps there never was such a necessity, for an address to you upon the subject of _caution_, since the East-India company was established, as at present.--Your great successes in India, have drawn upon you the envy of your own countrymen, as well as the other European powers; the great increase of your dividend, has alarmed the proprietors of other funds for their own property; the differences among yourselves, and your fellow-proprietors, have furnished this envy, and these fears, with the means perhaps of overturning your constitution.
Tho' I will not presume to determine, whence these differences arose, or who have been to blame, that not being part of the present design, you will agree with me they have drawn upon you the notice of the legislature, and have produced an act of parliament, that affords either party but little cause for rejoicing, however grateful it may be to the public. I…