The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... rupees , about 400l . , for his annual expenses . * It may well be supposed , that to conquer Tan- jore for him would have been a frantic attempt . But no such reflection was made when a zeal for the justice of his cause was held up as ...
... rupees , about 400l . , for his annual expenses . * It may well be supposed , that to conquer Tan- jore for him would have been a frantic attempt . But no such reflection was made when a zeal for the justice of his cause was held up as ...
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... rupees more than he had received during the course of the war . A great part of this sum was furnished out of his own estate , and the rest from moneys which he borrowed at interest , from the French inhabitants at Pondicherry , upon ...
... rupees more than he had received during the course of the war . A great part of this sum was furnished out of his own estate , and the rest from moneys which he borrowed at interest , from the French inhabitants at Pondicherry , upon ...
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... rupees were promised to the English Company , 5,000,000 rupees to English inhabitants , 2,000,000 to the Indians , and 700,000 to the Armenians . These sums were specified in the formal treaty . Over and beside * Report , ut supra . + ...
... rupees were promised to the English Company , 5,000,000 rupees to English inhabitants , 2,000,000 to the Indians , and 700,000 to the Armenians . These sums were specified in the formal treaty . Over and beside * Report , ut supra . + ...
Страница 111
... rupees should be asked for the squadron : and another of equal amount for the army . " When this was settled , " says Lord Clive , * " Mr. Becher ( a member ) suggested to the Committee , that he thought that Committee , who managed the ...
... rupees should be asked for the squadron : and another of equal amount for the army . " When this was settled , " says Lord Clive , * " Mr. Becher ( a member ) suggested to the Committee , that he thought that Committee , who managed the ...
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... rupees , equal to 2,750,000l . But other donations were promised , which have since been the foundation of several fortunes . " The scantiness of the Bengal treasury was most unexpected , as well as most painful news to the English ...
... rupees , equal to 2,750,000l . But other donations were promised , which have since been the foundation of several fortunes . " The scantiness of the Bengal treasury was most unexpected , as well as most painful news to the English ...
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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.