The Asiatic Annual Register, Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, Volume 8, Part 2Lawrence Dundas Campbell 1809 - Books Includes: A history of British India, monthly chronicles of Asian events, accounts, travel literature, general essays, reviews of books on Asia, political analyses, poetry, and letters from readers. |
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Page 96 - I feel conscious that I am endeavouring to promote the happiness of mankind, and the good of my country, I shall give very little weight to such considerations : And should conceive, that I had not performed the duty of the high and responsible office in which you did me the honour to place me, if I did not declare — That the present mixed government cannot prosper ; even in the best hands in which your part of it can be placed : And that, unless some such plan, as that which I have proposed, should...
Page 215 - ... majesty, for enabling the commissioners acting in execution of an agreement made between the East India company and the private creditors of the nabobs of the Carnatic, the better to carry the same into effect.
Page 235 - that the said petition be referred to the consideration of a committee of the whole House, and that the petitioners be heard by themselves before the said committee, if they think fit '
Page 240 - From the disappointments in the produce of the sales, with a large payment in bonds by the purchasers, and from a greater expenditure on account of India and China than first intended, the deficit would have appeared in the cash balance of "this year to a considerable amount ; but the sum borrowed from Government, a loan from the Bank, and an issue of Company's Bonds, have so operated, that the balance of cash estimated to remain in favor of the Company on the 1st of March...
Page 90 - Majesty (intituled an Act for the better Regulation and Management of the affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual trial of persons accused of offences committed in the East Indies...
Page 133 - India. As for the patronage, he thought it might be dangerous to the constitution, if such great additional patronage was to be given to the minister, and he therefore thought it would remain more safely in the hands of the court of directors.
Page 35 - Chinese had reached their highest pitch of civilization ; and, no doubt, they were then a very civilized people in comparison of their Tartar conquerors, and their European contemporaries, but, not having improved and advanced forward, or having rather gone back, at least for these hundred and fifty years past, since the last conquest by the northern, or Mantchou Tartars, whilst we have been every day rising in arts and sciences, they are actually become a semi-barbarous people, in comparison with...
Page 41 - Boring the ears, painting the face, and dusting and plaistering the hair with powder and grease, are equally fashionable in London and Otaheite ; but this perverseness and disfiguration are not confined to ourselves, but extended by us to the inferior creation. A noble lord of my acquaintance in Ireland contrived to put out all the eyes of Argus, and extinguish the brilliant plumage of his peacocks, and to propagate in their stead a breed of whites, greys and cream colors.
Page 182 - Company in 1801, and rendered liable to pay certain tributes, in the way of land-tax upon that territory, annually to the Company. The first year's tribute they did pay, he believed, regularly ; and the regulations of the Company, which were the laws of the country, were promulgated and established in that territory ; but upon the second payment being required, instead of complying with the law, they combined to resist it : they assembled together their armed forces, under the chief command of an...
Page 8 - ... employed in completing all the various arrangements connected with the distribution of the army, the reduction of the irregular troops, and the final settlement and security of our invaluable conquests. His departure from India was accompanied by the regret both of the European and native inhabitants of Bengal, and by the most public testimonials of respect, esteem, and gratitude. He arrived in England in the following September, after an absence of seven . years, and was received by his king...