1791-06-16 (static/transcriptions/1791/06/116.jpg)

Writ hereunto annexed mentioned was, on the 1st day of June instant, a British subject residing, and trafficking and trading in Calcutta at Fort William aforesaid, in Bengal aforesaid, and was not then, nor at any time since, nor is now, in the service of his Majesty King George the third, or, of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, nor in any manner Licensed by the said United Company, or, by the Governor General in Council for the affairs of the said United Company, at their Residency of Fort William in Bengal, and was not, on the said 1st day of June Instant or at any time since, nor is now, in any manner legally authorized to be or remain in the East Indies, that in the said 1st day of June Instant the said Governor General in Council assembled, did return and order that the said William Duane, so being a British Subject and not being in any manner legally authorized or licensed to be or remain or to traffick or trade in the East Indies, should be forthwith seized and sent to Europe in the first of the ships of the United Company that may proceed to England in the ensuing season, and that he should be restrained and kept in confinement, under the Custody of the Town Major, untill the departure of such Ship,
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