Levant Company
...that the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
...that the British <b id="mwA6s"><a href="./Levant_Company" id="mwA6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Levant Company">Levant Company</a></b> avoided a fatal mistake of other <a href="./Chartered_company" id="mwA60" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chartered company">chartered companies</a> by paying their <a href="./Consul_(representative)" id="mwA64" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Consul (representative)">consuls</a> and <a href="./Ambassador" id="mwA68" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ambassador">ambassadors</a> a <a href="./Pension" id="mwA7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pension">pension</a>, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?