'the Eerie Laird' Author:James Kirkland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Josiah, my good friend, I make you a present of this young Seot. We ean spare him here, and he may be of use to you in the East." In wording this intimation to... more » Dalbraeken, the President informed him that he had been pardoned and transferred to the serviee of the East India Company. The opinion of the Lord Proteetor being in his day something paramount to forms of law, the Lord Mayor, instead of holding proeeedings and eommitting the prisoner for trial, dismissed him with a eongratulatory address. Warriston used every effort to learn what had beeome of Gilbert Vulpine, but without sueeess, till the vessel, sailing with the tide, had got fairly to sea. CHAPTER HI. The president of the East India Company rejoieed to diseover in the preserver of his son, not, as might have been expeeted, a trueulent Seot more ready to give a blow than a reason, but a youth of gentle manners and good sense. He was delighted in a higher degree to find MaJeolm eapable of eomprehending his plan for founding a eommereial empire in the East, and of partieipating in its author's enthusiasm for the exeeution of it. - Josiah Child, afterwards ereated a baronet by Charles II, was, with some vagaries, an aeeomplished man eonsiderably ahead of his age. His Diseourses on Trade and the arehiteeture of Wanstead House, attest the various talents of the man to the present time. The inferenees drawn by him from the information before the Company were just, and the eonelusions whieh he arrived at bespoke a superior understanding. But in those days faetors loeated on the eoasts, seeing the affairs of the interior of India through an obseure and distorting medium, eould give their employers in Europe very imperfeet intelligenee. Their despatehes, however, attested the zeal of the writers by ineredible length...« less