The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... French factory in that province had , from want of funds and bad management , remained in a low and degraded ... French Company at Patna ; and rendered the French commerce in Bengal an object of envy to the most commercial of the ...
... French factory in that province had , from want of funds and bad management , remained in a low and degraded ... French Company at Patna ; and rendered the French commerce in Bengal an object of envy to the most commercial of the ...
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... French for removal of the goods . Labourdonnais and the English , though with some reluctance , both agreed , that the period of evacuation should be changed from the 15th of October to the 15th of January . This was all that Dupleix ...
... French for removal of the goods . Labourdonnais and the English , though with some reluctance , both agreed , that the period of evacuation should be changed from the 15th of October to the 15th of January . This was all that Dupleix ...
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... French , and is defeated . Dupleix breaks faith with the English . He had not taken his departure from Madras , when the troops of the Nabob appeared . Dupleix had been able to dissuade the Nabob from yielding his pro- tection to Madras ...
... French , and is defeated . Dupleix breaks faith with the English . He had not taken his departure from Madras , when the troops of the Nabob appeared . Dupleix had been able to dissuade the Nabob from yielding his pro- tection to Madras ...
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... French by his defeat at Madras , readily engaged , upon the pro- mise of the English to defray part of the expense , to send his army to assist Fort St. David . The French , after gaining an advantageous post , had laid down their arms ...
... French by his defeat at Madras , readily engaged , upon the pro- mise of the English to defray part of the expense , to send his army to assist Fort St. David . The French , after gaining an advantageous post , had laid down their arms ...
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... 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 Mauritius . Admiral Griffin sought for ...
... 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 Mauritius . Admiral Griffin sought for ...
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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.