The History of British India, Part 36Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820 - Hindus |
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... tion in the history of British Commerce . So little does experience countenance the dangerous maxim , of the people's being always eager to grasp at too much power , that the great difficulty , in regard to good go- vernment , is , to ...
... tion in the history of British Commerce . So little does experience countenance the dangerous maxim , of the people's being always eager to grasp at too much power , that the great difficulty , in regard to good go- vernment , is , to ...
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... tion , which he calls his cutchery : He is provided with a sufficient number of peons , a sort of armed servants ; and hircarahs , messengers or letter carriers , by his employer : These he immediately dispatches about the place , to ...
... tion , which he calls his cutchery : He is provided with a sufficient number of peons , a sort of armed servants ; and hircarahs , messengers or letter carriers , by his employer : These he immediately dispatches about the place , to ...
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... tion . The appointment of the Members to the gain- ful offices after which they aspired , was in a consi- derable degree subject to his determination ; while he had it in his power to make the situation even of a member of the Council ...
... tion . The appointment of the Members to the gain- ful offices after which they aspired , was in a consi- derable degree subject to his determination ; while he had it in his power to make the situation even of a member of the Council ...
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... tion of 1730. But the other , and not the least im- portant , the export branch of the Company's trade , exhibited another result : As the exportation of the year 1708 was exceedingly small , compared with that of 1709 and the following ...
... tion of 1730. But the other , and not the least im- portant , the export branch of the Company's trade , exhibited another result : As the exportation of the year 1708 was exceedingly small , compared with that of 1709 and the following ...
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... Company , in 1773 , p . 73 . 210 Ann . c . 28. See Collection of Statutes , p . 42 . 3 Anderson's Hist . of Commerce , A. D. 1716 and 1718 , and Collec- tion of Statutes . 1708-23 . BOOK IV . Utrecht , which bestowed the.
... Company , in 1773 , p . 73 . 210 Ann . c . 28. See Collection of Statutes , p . 42 . 3 Anderson's Hist . of Commerce , A. D. 1716 and 1718 , and Collec- tion of Statutes . 1708-23 . BOOK IV . Utrecht , which bestowed 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.