0 Letters on the East India Monopoly originally published in the Glasgow Chronicle with additions

0 Letters on the East India Monopoly originally published in the Glasgow Chronicle with additions and corrections 2 parts in 1 second edition annotations to first few leaves 10 blank ff. at end contemporary half calf upper board detached Glasgow 1812 § Laurie (David) Hints Regarding the East India Company 56pp. light browning to edges modern wrappers Glasgow 1813 8vo (2) *** In 1812 the Company in order to help their efforts to renew their Charter considered relaxing their exclusive privileges relating to the export trade with India. However the proposed relaxation was only to benefit London merchants much to the consternation of their provincial colleagues. As a consequence over 30 pamphlets attacking the Company appeared in 1812-13 agitating for a complete opening to all British ports of the export trade. Those from Glasgow and Edinburgh “were as remarkable for their vehemence as for their general ignorance of the conditions under which the Indian trade was carried on.” (Philips). This led to a pamphlet war but the tide was turning against the Company and in 1813 it gave up its privileges.