The Political History of India, from 1784 to 1823, Том 2John Murray, 1826 - 4 страници |
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Страница 16 - We have at last arrived at that critical period which I have long foreseen ; I mean that period which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can or shall take the whole to ourselves.
Страница lxxxii - Tippoo's ambassadors, ratified by himself, and accompanied by the landing of a French force in his country, is a public, unqualified, and unambiguous declaration of war, aggravated by an avowal that the object of the war is neither explanation, reparation, nor security, but the total destruction of the British government in India.
Страница lxv - Directors, in any case (except where hostilities have actually been commenced, or preparations actually made for the commencement of hostilities against the British nation in India...
Страница 33 - No regulation can be carried into execution, no order obeyed, if you do not make rigorous examples of the disobedient. Upon this point I rest the welfare of the Company in Bengal. The servants are now brought to a proper sense of their duty ; if you slacken the reins of government, affairs will soon revert to their former channel...
Страница lxxxii - If the conduct of Tippoo Sultaun had been of a nature which could be termed ambiguous or suspicious ; if he had merely increased his force beyond his ordinary establishment, or had stationed it in some position on our confines or on those of our allies, which might justify jealousy or alarm ; if he had renewed his secret intrigues at the Courts of Hyderabad...
Страница lxxxiv - ... complain, that, professing the most amicable disposition, bound by subsisting treaties of peace and friendship, and unprovoked by any offence on our part, he has manifested a design to effect our total destruction, he has prepared the means and instruments of a war of extermination against us; he has solicited and received the aid of our inveterate enemy for the declared purpose of annihilating our empire: and he only waits the arrival of a more effectual succour to strike a blow against our...
Страница cclxvi - ... than by expressing my full conviction, that, independent of the prescribed duties which every qualified officer performs, there is no. person in a situation of any consequence who does not, both in the substance and manner of his conduct, do something every day in his life, which, as it operates upon the general interests of the empire through the feelings of the circle he controls or rules, has an unseen effect in strengthening or weakening the government by which he is employed.
Страница lxxviii - Sultan not only with the most exact attention to the principles of moderation, justice and good faith, but have endeavoured by every practicable means to conciliate his confidence, and to mitigate his vindictive spirit. Some differences have occasionally arisen with respect to the boundaries of his territory bordering upon the confines of our possessions on the coast of Malabar, but the records of all the British Governments in India will...
Страница cclxiv - ... with which we conduct ourselves towards them ; and injured by every act that offends their belief or superstition, that shews disregard or neglect of individuals or communities, or that evinces our having with the arrogance of conquerors forgotten those maxims by which this great empire has been established, and by which alone it can be preserved.
Страница 302 - ... of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain to sovereign rule. It carries with it the united reliance and effort of the whole mass of the governed; and let the triumph of our beloved country in its awful contest with tyrantridden France, speak the value of a spirit to be found only in men accustomed to indulge and express their...