Annual Register, Volum 26Edmund Burke 1785 |
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... prefent and by former wars , the fequeftered and happy country of Benares , generally had the fortune to escape the common calamity . Befides the fecurity de- rived from the great distance of the fea , the facred character af- cribed to ...
... prefent and by former wars , the fequeftered and happy country of Benares , generally had the fortune to escape the common calamity . Befides the fecurity de- rived from the great distance of the fea , the facred character af- cribed to ...
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... prefent of twenty lacks of rupees to the Nabob vi zier , and to increase the annual tribute , from twenty - one and a half , to twenty - four lacks . In the treaty , for the inftrument then perfected between Sujah Ul Dow- Jah and the ...
... prefent of twenty lacks of rupees to the Nabob vi zier , and to increase the annual tribute , from twenty - one and a half , to twenty - four lacks . In the treaty , for the inftrument then perfected between Sujah Ul Dow- Jah and the ...
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... prefent ; the palace being left in the cuftody of its own small fta- tionary garrison . With these the Rajah fled for fhelter and refuge , to Lutteefpore , one of his ftrongest fortreffes . Neither the late bloody ca- taftrophe , nor ...
... prefent ; the palace being left in the cuftody of its own small fta- tionary garrison . With these the Rajah fled for fhelter and refuge , to Lutteefpore , one of his ftrongest fortreffes . Neither the late bloody ca- taftrophe , nor ...
Side 25
... prefent cri- fis was not a little diftreffing . This was the approach of the Nabob vizier , who having originally in- tended , as a mark of refpect , if not of homage , to meet him at Benares , had fet out from his ca- pital for that ...
... prefent cri- fis was not a little diftreffing . This was the approach of the Nabob vizier , who having originally in- tended , as a mark of refpect , if not of homage , to meet him at Benares , had fet out from his ca- pital for that ...
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... prefent fallen ftate of affairs , the prefence and authority of the Na- bob might communicate , if he were really a friend ; nor that his troops ( rabble though they were ) would ferve to keep the country in awe , and to divide the ...
... prefent fallen ftate of affairs , the prefence and authority of the Na- bob might communicate , if he were really a friend ; nor that his troops ( rabble though they were ) would ferve to keep the country in awe , and to divide the ...
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