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... Company , con- tinuing to increase , notwithstanding the violent methods before mentioned taken to augment his resources , the ... Company's or- ders , forbidding such delegation . VIII . That the said Warren Hastings , having by his B3 ...
... Company , con- tinuing to increase , notwithstanding the violent methods before mentioned taken to augment his resources , the ... Company's or- ders , forbidding such delegation . VIII . That the said Warren Hastings , having by his B3 ...
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... Company's guarantee , under the colour of a treaty , which treaty was conducted secretly without a written document ... Company : but provided neither in the said pretended treaty , nor in any subsequent act , the least security for the ...
... Company's guarantee , under the colour of a treaty , which treaty was conducted secretly without a written document ... Company : but provided neither in the said pretended treaty , nor in any subsequent act , the least security for the ...
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... Company's guarantee forbidding such resumption , but furnishing nothing , which could authorize putting that resumption into the hands and power of the Company , to be en- forced at their discretion . And with regard to the other part ...
... Company's guarantee forbidding such resumption , but furnishing nothing , which could authorize putting that resumption into the hands and power of the Company , to be en- forced at their discretion . And with regard to the other part ...
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... Company's possession , and found to exceed the amount of what they were rated at in the general list of con fiscated estates ; and although the assistant Resi- dent Johnson did confess " that the object of dis- tressing the Bhow Begum ...
... Company's possession , and found to exceed the amount of what they were rated at in the general list of con fiscated estates ; and although the assistant Resi- dent Johnson did confess " that the object of dis- tressing the Bhow Begum ...
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... Company's service , " who has suffered in his property by an inde- " pendent command . "零 1 XXXVII . That , in about two months after the said pri- soners had continued in irons in the manner afore- said , the officer on guard , in a ...
... Company's service , " who has suffered in his property by an inde- " pendent command . "零 1 XXXVII . That , in about two months after the said pri- soners had continued in irons in the manner afore- said , the officer on guard , in a ...
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Page 37 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 16 - ... due to the Company, he could better, and more expeditiously, effect that object by taking from his mother the treasures of his father, which he...
Page 453 - the governor-general and council are required and directed to pay due obedience to all such orders as they shall receive from the court of directors of the said united company...
Page 264 - Think of their numbers, think of their influence, and the enormous amount of their salaries, pensions, and emoluments! They were, you have heard, an intolerable burden on the revenues and authority of the Vizier ; and they exposed us to the envy and resentment of the whole country, by excluding the native servants and adherents of the prince from the just reward of their services and attachments.
Page 54 - I wish you had been present at the enlargement of the prisoners. The quivering lips, with the tears of joy stealing down the poor men's cheeks, was a scene truly affecting. LXVIII. " If the prayers of these poor men will avail, you will, at the LAST TEUMP ! be translated to the happiest regions in heaven.