The Beginnings of English Overseas Enterprise a Prelude to the Empire
The Beginnings of English Overseas Enterprise a Prelude to the Empire
Charles Prestwood Lucas
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He says (p. 280) that during the late period of the Adventurers' history the governor of the fellowship was usually not resident abroad. On the other hand, Postle- thwayt writes ' The English are pretty numerous here '. in OF ENGLAND 117 they Became a small clique of merchants, whose privileges were a survival of greatness long past. The account given of the British factory at Ham- burg, after it had ceased to exist, is that the factory ' at its dissolution, and for many years previous, had bec...ome entirely a close institution'.^ The end came as the result of the Napoleonic The end Wars. After Jena and Auerstadt, in November, company. 1806, French troops under Mortier took possession of the free city of Hamburg. It was not likely that Napoleon would tolerate the privileged existence of an English trading company in the great com- mercial town of the Elbe. Under French pressure the merchants were compelled to resign to the Hamburg Senate all their special and exterritorial rights, to remain in Hamburg only on condition of becoming citizens of Hamburg.
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