The History of British India, Volum 3

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J. Madden, 1858
 

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Side 447 - I will not sit at this board in the character of a criminal, nor do I acknowledge the board to be my judges.
Side 279 - The language of the Directors held pace with that of the Governor. In their answer to the letter from which this extract is taken, they say, " We have the 4 •strongest sense of the deplorable state to which our affairs were on the point of being reduced, from the corruption and rapacity of our servants, and the universal depravity of manners throughout the settlement.
Side 117 - our company," says Mr. Cooke, " expired very " soon after being put in ; others grew mad, and, " having lost their senses, died in a high delirium." At length, and by degrees, these various outcries sunk into silence, — but it was the silence of death. When the morning broke, and the Nabob's order came to unlock the door, it became necessary first to clear a lane, by drawing out the corpses, and piling them in heaps on each...
Side 279 - ... instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority and proceed even to extortion in those cases where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. Examples of this sort set by superiors could not fail of being: followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors ; the evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and military down to the writer, the ensign, and the free merchant.
Side 365 - 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."!
Side 362 - We wish we could refute the observation, that almost every attempt made by us and our administrations at your Presidency for the reforming of abuses has rather increased them, and added to the miseries of the country we are so anxious to protect and cherish.
Side 386 - Hindostan of, at once, a great and a good character. He raised himself from the command of fifty horse to his present grandeur entirely by his superior valour, integrity, and strength of mind. Experience and abilities have supplied the want of letters and education, and the native nobleness and goodness of his heart have amply made amends for the defect of his birth and family. He is now about sixty years of age, borne down by fatigue and sickness,
Side 362 - ... retrench expenses, the end has by no means been answerable to the institution. Are not the tenants more than ever oppressed and wretched? Are our investments improved? Have not the raw silk and cocoons been raised upon us fifty per cent in price?
Side 305 - Soubah ; that we have allotted him a stipend which must bje regularly paid in support of his dignity; and that though the revenues belong to the Company the territorial jurisdiction must still rest in the Chiefs of the country acting under him and this Presidency in conjunction.
Side 231 - A trade was carried on without payment of duties, in the prosecution of which infinite oppressions were committed. English agents or gomastahs, not contented with injuring the people, trampled on the authority of government, binding and punishing the Nabob's officers, whenever they presumed to interfere.

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