ABSTRACT
from J. Fiott, Three Addresses, to the Proprietors of East India Stock, and the Publick, on the Subject of the Shipping Concerns of the Company, 1795, pp. 32–5. John Fiott had been building ships for the East India Company since 1780. Although he offered his ships at freights considerably lower than those charged by the existing owners, his offers were usually rejected, due, he believed, to the domination of the Company by ‘the shipping interest’.
