Keywords: Opposition to Ostend Company.jpg en The new Austrian Imperial chartered company set up by Flemish merchants in the early 1720s to trade with the East Indies the Ostend Company was met with considerable hostility from the established English Dutch and French East India companies On the left the first page of an open letter denouncing the pernicious Imperial company On the right the first page of a French royal edict prohibiting French subjects from doing business with the new company 2014-06-03 09 59 54 Open Library org Private and state documents published in the 1720s PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Ostend Company 1725 texts Earls of Bath |