The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... enemy ; re - established the factory ; and then returned to the islands to wait for the declaration of war between France and England . There he soon received the mortifying orders of the Company to send home all the vessels under his ...
... enemy ; re - established the factory ; and then returned to the islands to wait for the declaration of war between France and England . There he soon received the mortifying orders of the Company to send home all the vessels under his ...
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... enemy in the morning . But the French admiral , as soon as it was dark , crowded sail , and proceeded directly to Madras , where he landed 300 soldiers , and 200,000l . in silver , the object of his voyage ; and then returned to ...
... enemy in the morning . But the French admiral , as soon as it was dark , crowded sail , and proceeded directly to Madras , where he landed 300 soldiers , and 200,000l . in silver , the object of his voyage ; and then returned to ...
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... enemy defended themselves with spirit : Major Laurence was taken prisoner in the trenches : Several days were consumed , and more would have been added to them , had not a part of the enemy's magazine of powder taken fire , which so ...
... enemy defended themselves with spirit : Major Laurence was taken prisoner in the trenches : Several days were consumed , and more would have been added to them , had not a part of the enemy's magazine of powder taken fire , which so ...
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... enemy ; and returned with the loss of only two or three men : Another proof of the extraordi- nary weakness of an Indian army , when opposed to the force of the European mind . The Subahdar , alarmed at the presence of so enterprising ...
... enemy ; and returned with the loss of only two or three men : Another proof of the extraordi- nary weakness of an Indian army , when opposed to the force of the European mind . The Subahdar , alarmed at the presence of so enterprising ...
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... enemy , who He obtains possession of remained in garrison at Arcot , which was an open town , defended by a fort , Arcot . abandoned the place , and gave him possession without resistance . Expecting a siege , he exerted his utmost ...
... enemy , who He obtains possession of remained in garrison at Arcot , which was an open town , defended by a fort , Arcot . abandoned the place , and gave him possession without resistance . Expecting a siege , he exerted his utmost ...
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Страница 311 - It was an innovation by which the whole property of the country, and along with it the administration of justice, were placed upon a new foundation...
Страница 238 - ... the vast fortunes acquired in the inland trade have been obtained by a scene of the most tyrannic and oppressive conduct that ever was known in any age or country.
Страница 237 - Upon my arrival, I am sorry to say, I found your affairs in a condition so nearly desperate as would have alarmed any set of men whose sense of honour and duty to their employers had not been estranged by the too eager pursuit of their own immediate advantages.
Страница 310 - 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."!
Страница 258 - 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...
Страница 304 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, did of right belong to the state. " 2. That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emolument of persons intrusted with any civil or military power of the state is illegal.
Страница 99 - 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.
Страница 4 - Company has been an oligarchy, in fact. So far from meddling too much, the Court of Proprietors have not attended to the common affairs even sufficiently for the business of inspection: And the known principles of human nature abundantly secured that unfortunate result. To watch, to scrutinize, to inquire, is labour, and labour is pain. To confide, to take for granted that all is well, is easy, is exempt from labour, and, to the great mass of mankind, comparatively delightful. On all ordinary occasions,...
Страница 240 - 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.
Страница 216 - Your deliberations on the inland trade have laid open to us a scene of most cruel oppression; the poor of the country, who used always to deal in salt, beetlenut, and tobacco, are now deprived of their daily bread by the trade of the Europeans.