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... Bill of pains and penalties . Proceeding therein . Bill loft . Confideration of the first fet of refolutions refumed . Refolution against Mr. Haftings voted . Conduct of the court of proprietors on that occafion . Proceedings of the ...
... Bill of pains and penalties . Proceeding therein . Bill loft . Confideration of the first fet of refolutions refumed . Refolution against Mr. Haftings voted . Conduct of the court of proprietors on that occafion . Proceedings of the ...
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Edmund Burke. · . As the bill we have juft men- tioned was grounded on the re- ports of the committees which had now fat upwards of three years on the affairs of India , it will be ne- ceffary to refume our hiftory of that part of the ...
Edmund Burke. · . As the bill we have juft men- tioned was grounded on the re- ports of the committees which had now fat upwards of three years on the affairs of India , it will be ne- ceffary to refume our hiftory of that part of the ...
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... bill of pains and pe- nalties . In these resolutions Sir Thomas Rumbold was charged , firft , with having remitted to Europe , between the 8th of February 1778 ( the day of his arrival at Madras ) and the be ginning of Auguft in the ...
... bill of pains and pe- nalties . In these resolutions Sir Thomas Rumbold was charged , firft , with having remitted to Europe , between the 8th of February 1778 ( the day of his arrival at Madras ) and the be ginning of Auguft in the ...
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... bill of pains and penalties against Sir Thomas Rumbold , Peter Perring , and John Whitehill , for breaches of public truft and high crimes and misdemeanors . At the fame time was alfo brought in a bill for restraining those per- fons ...
... bill of pains and penalties against Sir Thomas Rumbold , Peter Perring , and John Whitehill , for breaches of public truft and high crimes and misdemeanors . At the fame time was alfo brought in a bill for restraining those per- fons ...
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... bill was brought in , for the purpose of afcertaining more diftinctly the powers given by former acts to the governor general and council of Bengal . 66 66 At the close of this feffion , the King expreffed his approbation " of " the ...
... bill was brought in , for the purpose of afcertaining more diftinctly the powers given by former acts to the governor general and council of Bengal . 66 66 At the close of this feffion , the King expreffed his approbation " of " the ...
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Página 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
Página 15 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Página 56 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Página 16 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Página 183 - It is therefore not from treasuries and mines, but from the food of your unpaid armies, from the blood withheld from the veins, and whipt out of the backs of the most miserable of men, that we are to pamper extortion, usury, and peculation, under the false names of debtors and creditors of state.
Página 186 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 115 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Página 115 - This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right, and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the real purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Página 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.