The History of British India, Part 36Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820 - Hindus |
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... Proceedings in the India House , and in Parliament - Plan of Supervisors - Plan of a King's Commis- sioner - Increase of pecuniary Difficulties - Dividend raised - Com- pany unable to meet their Obligations - Parliamentary Inquiry - Mi ...
... Proceedings in the India House , and in Parliament - Plan of Supervisors - Plan of a King's Commis- sioner - Increase of pecuniary Difficulties - Dividend raised - Com- pany unable to meet their Obligations - Parliamentary Inquiry - Mi ...
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... a fixed and definite sum : Of the modes of dealing , adapted to the nature of the business , little information remained to be ac- quired : Their proceedings were reduced to an VOL . III . B СПАР . 1 . 1708 . BOOK IV . established.
... a fixed and definite sum : Of the modes of dealing , adapted to the nature of the business , little information remained to be ac- quired : Their proceedings were reduced to an VOL . III . B СПАР . 1 . 1708 . BOOK IV . established.
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... proceedings of the Chairmen , and Directors ; would deliberate with vio- lence and animosity ; and exhibit all the confusion , precipitation , and imprudence , which are so commonly ascribed to the exercise of popular power . The actual ...
... proceedings of the Chairmen , and Directors ; would deliberate with vio- lence and animosity ; and exhibit all the confusion , precipitation , and imprudence , which are so commonly ascribed to the exercise of popular power . The actual ...
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... proceedings , under which he had behaved with a manly temperance ; after Du- pleix had even commanded him to re - land the Pon- dicherry troops , he resolved to send the fleet , which he was still too much indisposed to command , to ...
... proceedings , under which he had behaved with a manly temperance ; after Du- pleix had even commanded him to re - land the Pon- dicherry troops , he resolved to send the fleet , which he was still too much indisposed to command , to ...
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... proceedings of the Nabob of Carnatic and his son- in - law , and incited the Mahrattas , as people of the same origin and religion , to march to their assistance . The attention of Nizam al Mulk was too deeply engaged in watching the ...
... proceedings of the Nabob of Carnatic and his son- in - law , and incited the Mahrattas , as people of the same origin and religion , to march to their assistance . The attention of Nizam al Mulk was too deeply engaged in watching the ...
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Page 53 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Page 422 - I hope I shall not depart from the simplicity of official language in saying, the majesty of justice ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs, and the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishments before trial, and even before accusation.
Page 148 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 292 - I have been surprised to meet with several English flags flying in places which I have passed; and on the river I do not believe that I passed a boat without one.
Page 300 - The conduct of the Company's servants upon this occasion," says James Mill in his History of British India, " furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame.
Page 514 - AGRA. the emperor flings himself into the hands of the Mahrattas, or any other power, we are disengaged from him, and it may open a fair opportunity of withholding the twenty-six lacs of rupees we now pay him.
Page 386 - Under the Sanction of a Soubah every encroachment that may be attempted by Foreign Powers can effectually be crushed without any apparent Interposition of our own Authority ; and all real Grievances complained of by them, can, through the same channel, be examined into and redressed. Be it therefore always remembered that there is a...
Page 461 - The Nazims exacted what they could from the Zemindars, and great Farmers of the Revenue, whom they left at Liberty to plunder all below them reserving to themselves the Prerogative of Plundering them in their Turn, when they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the Spoils of the country.
Page 462 - to stand forth as Diwan and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues."!
Page 359 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.