Hastings and the Rohilla WarClarendon Press, 1892 - 324 страници |
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Afghan afterwards Ahmad Shah Abdali alliance army assistance attack authority Benares Bengal Bisauli brigade British Museum British Museum MSS Burke Calcutta charge Colonel Champion command Company Company's conduct Council Court of Directors cross the Ganges cruelty defence districts Doáb Dundi Khan Emperor enemy engaged English troops expedition expenses Faizullah Khan family of Hafiz favour Fifth Report forces Forrest's Selections forty lakhs give Government Hafiz Rahmat Khan History honour House of Commons India Office India Office Records Kora and Allahabad lakhs of rupees Marathas ment Middleton Mill Mohammad Mohibullah Khan Nabob Najib-ud-daula Nawab orders Oudh payment Persian plunder possession private letter proposed protection provinces of Kora quoted received referred regarding reply Rohilkhand Rohilla chiefs Rohilla country Rohilla war sent Shuja Shuja-ud-daula Sir Robert Barker Sirdars stipulated Sujah Dowlah territories tion treaty Vizier Warren Hastings whole wrote Zabita Khan
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Страница 259 - To suppose that the same international customs, and the same rules of international morality, can obtain between one civilized nation and another, and between civilized nations and barbarians, is a grave error...
Страница 57 - The powers of the governor, although supposed to be great, are in reality little more than those of any individual in his Council. ... At the same time I must do the gentlemen of the Board the justice to declare that I have found in them so cordial a disposition to co-operate with me in every measure for the public good, that I feel no want of extraordinary powers for myself. ... I mention this want only as a defect in the service...
Страница 259 - But barbarians will not reciprocate. They cannot be depended on for observing any rules. Their minds are not capable of so great an effort, nor their will sufficiently under the influence of distant motives.
Страница 148 - We engaged to assist the Vizier in reducing the Rohilla country under his dominion that the boundary of his possessions might be completed, by the Ganges forming a barrier to cover them from the attacks and insults to which they were exposed by his enemies either possessing or having access to the Rohilla country.
Страница 97 - What"ever policy suggested the first idea of the tribute, " and whatever title he may be conceived to have had " to the payment of it while he remained under our " protection and united his fortune with ours, his late " conduct has forfeited every claim to it, and made it " even dangerous to allow it, even if the resources of " Bengal and the exigencies of the Company could any "longer admit of it. Our conduct towards him has " certainly afforded matter of admiration to the whole
Страница 123 - The Board concurred heartily with the President " in wishing to avoid the expedition pro"posed; without entering into a discussion of the " propriety of such an enterprise on general principles, " the Board see in their full force all the circumstances "of doubt as to its present expediency which the " President has so clearly set forth, and they are also " sensible of the embarrassment which he lies under " from what passed on the subject between him and " the Vizier at Benares. They are equally...
Страница 235 - All our advices," he continues, " both public and private, represented the distresses of the Company at home as extreme. The letters from the Court of Directors called upon us most loudly for ample remittances, and a reduction of our military expenses. At the same time, such was the state of affairs in this Government, that for many years past the income of the year was found inadequate to its expense ; to defray which a heavy bond debt, amounting at one time to 1 25 lakhs of rupees had accumulated.
Страница 57 - Our constitution is nowhere to be traced but in ancient charters which were framed for the jurisdiction of your trading settlements, the sales of your exports, and the provision of your annual investment. I need not observe how incompetent these must prove for the government of a great kingdom, and for the preservation of its riches from private violence and embezzlement.
Страница 195 - Vizir to show lenity were frequent, but as fruitless as even those advices which I almost hourly gave him, regarding the destruction of the villages, with respect to which I am now constrained to declare, that...
Страница 191 - I have a deaf ear to the lamentable cries of the widow and fatherless, and shut my eyes against a wanton display of violence and oppression, of inhumanity and cruelty.