HL Deb 22 March 1830 vol 23 c673

Returns ordered. Copies of three Letters from the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-general in Council at Fort William, Bengal; to the Governor in Council at Fort St. George; and to the Governor in Council at Bombay, all dated March 10th, 1830.

Petitions presented. Praying that the Trade to India might be thrown open—By the Earl of HARDWICKE, from the Borough of Wigan, in Lancashire:—By Lord ARBUTHNOT, from the Royal Borough of Lanark:—By the Earl of ROSSLYN, from the Cotton-weavers of Glasgow. By Earl STANHOPE, from the Agriculturists of Nottingham, representing the Distressed State of Agriculture, and praying relief:—and from the Agricultural Society of Holderness, to the same effect.