The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... territory , required additions to the system of Committees , when the Com- pany afterwards became conquerors and rulers . But of these it will be time to speak when the events arrive which produced them . The Chairmen , as the name ...
... territory , required additions to the system of Committees , when the Com- pany afterwards became conquerors and rulers . But of these it will be time to speak when the events arrive which produced them . The Chairmen , as the name ...
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... territory belonging to the Company extended five miles along the shore , and was about one mile in breadth . The town consisted of three divisions . The first , denominated the white town , in which resided none but the English or other ...
... territory belonging to the Company extended five miles along the shore , and was about one mile in breadth . The town consisted of three divisions . The first , denominated the white town , in which resided none but the English or other ...
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... territory amounted to about 250,000 . With the exception of Goa and Batavia , Madras was , in point both of magnitude and riches , the most important of the European establishments in India . Capitulation of Madras . State of the French ...
... territory amounted to about 250,000 . With the exception of Goa and Batavia , Madras was , in point both of magnitude and riches , the most important of the European establishments in India . Capitulation of Madras . State of the French ...
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... territory of Pondicherry ; and three factories , or comptoirs , one at Mahé , not far south from Tellicherry on the Ma- labar coast , one at Karical on one of the branches of the Coleroon on the Co- romandel coast , and one at ...
... territory of Pondicherry ; and three factories , or comptoirs , one at Mahé , not far south from Tellicherry on the Ma- labar coast , one at Karical on one of the branches of the Coleroon on the Co- romandel coast , and one at ...
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... territory was still larger than that of Madras . Besides Fort St. David , at which were placed the houses of the Company , and other Europeans , the ter- ritory contained the town of Cuddalore , inhabited by the Indian merchants , and ...
... territory was still larger than that of Madras . Besides Fort St. David , at which were placed the houses of the Company , and other Europeans , the ter- ritory contained the town of Cuddalore , inhabited by the Indian merchants , and ...
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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.