As to the management of this company, 500_l._ in the company’s stock gives the owner a vote in the general courts, and 2000_l._ qualifies a person to be chosen a Director. The Directors are twenty-four in number, including the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, who may be reelected four years successively. The Chairman has a salary of 200_l._ a year, and each of the Directors 150_l._ A court of the Directors is held at least once a week, at the East India House; but they are commonly held oftener, they being summoned as occasions require. Out of the body of Directors are chosen several committees, who have the peculiar inspection of separate branches of the company’s business; as the committee of buying, committee of correspondence, committee of accounts, committee of the treasury, a house committee, a warehouse committee, a committee of shipping, a committee to prevent the growth of private trade, and a committee of law suits. The East India company export bullion to a very great value, with woollen cloth, lead, and some other English commodities; and import China ware, tea, cabinets, raw and wrought silks, calicoes, chints, pepper, &c. but all the wrought silks, and calicoes, are to be exported again. All the goods imported by the company are to be sold openly by inch of candle, on pain of forfeiting one half to the King, and the other to the prosecutor. East India stock is esteemed in law, personal estate, and the shares exempt from taxes. [Illustration: _East India House._ _S. Wale delin._ _B. Green sculp._ ] EAST INDIA HOUSE, on the south side of Leadenhall street, and a little to the west of Lime street. This edifice was built on the place where anciently stood the city house of the Lord Craven, and his ancestors. The present structure was erected by the company in the year 1726. It is a plain Doric on a rustic basement, and has not much to be found fault with or commended. It might have been justly considered as a very fine edifice, had it been the house of a single Director; but it is not at all equal to the grandeur of this company, and the great figure they make in the trading world; nor bears any proportion to the idea we conceive of this body, when we consider, that the Directors who meet here, appoint or remove Governors who are their servants, and yet have all the dignity and state of Kings, some of whom seldom stir abroad without their guards and a numerous retinue, or eat, but upon gilt plate, or the finest China.