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... views , and make them what their stations required they should be , is well stated in a letter to Sir Robert Barker : - " Colonel Smith is making a vigorous progress in reforming the abuses that fall under his notice . The monstrous ...
... views , and make them what their stations required they should be , is well stated in a letter to Sir Robert Barker : - " Colonel Smith is making a vigorous progress in reforming the abuses that fall under his notice . The monstrous ...
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... views , and availed themselves of their political superiority to enter into the in- ternal trade also ; and , applying their partial freedom from duties on foreign trade to eir- cumstances totally different , employed it to exempt ...
... views , and availed themselves of their political superiority to enter into the in- ternal trade also ; and , applying their partial freedom from duties on foreign trade to eir- cumstances totally different , employed it to exempt ...
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... ciety , and commanding the trade to be thrown open , and left entirely to the natives . In com- ing to this resolution , they were not so much influenced by any views of the particular merits or demerits 104 MEMOIRS OF LORD CLIVE .
... ciety , and commanding the trade to be thrown open , and left entirely to the natives . In com- ing to this resolution , they were not so much influenced by any views of the particular merits or demerits 104 MEMOIRS OF LORD CLIVE .
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... views of the particular merits or demerits of the new plan itself , as by con- sideration of the mischiefs which had for several years attended the general system of internal trade carried on by the English gentlemen with a high hand ...
... views of the particular merits or demerits of the new plan itself , as by con- sideration of the mischiefs which had for several years attended the general system of internal trade carried on by the English gentlemen with a high hand ...
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... views on the subject to the Com- mittee of Treasury and Correspondence of the Directors , in a detailed and laboured letter . * He pointed out the advantages of the trade as then regulated , as the best fund that the Company over ...
... views on the subject to the Com- mittee of Treasury and Correspondence of the Directors , in a detailed and laboured letter . * He pointed out the advantages of the trade as then regulated , as the best fund that the Company over ...
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Page 100 - Committee expresses our sentiments of what has been obtained by way of donations ; and to that we must add, that we think die 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.
Page 349 - But to be called, after sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner ; and, after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my property, to be questioned, and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed, and a treatment of which I should not think the British senate capable.
Page 340 - After rendering my country the service which I think I may, without any degree of vanity, claim the merit of, and after having nearly exhausted a life full of employment for the public welfare and the particular benefit of the East India Company, I little thought that such transactions would have agitated the minds of my countrymen in proceedings like the present, tending to deprive me not only of my property, and the fortune which I have fairly acquired, but of that which I hold more dear to me...
Page 349 - My defence will be heard at that bar ; but before I sit down, I have one request to make to the House, — that, when they come to decide upon my honour, they will not forget their own.
Page 163 - No regulation can be carried into execution, no order obeyed, if you do not make rigorous examples of the disobedient. Upon this point I rest the welfare of the Company in Bengal. The servants are now brought to a proper sense of their duty ; if you slacken the reins of government, affairs will soon revert to their former channel...
Page 107 - If you grant a commission upon the revenues the sum will not only be large but known to the world. The allowance being publicly ascertained, every man's proportion will at all times be the occasion of much discourse, envy and jealousy.
Page 269 - Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal.
Page 193 - perhaps," he cried, "this House is not the place where our "reasons can be of any avail. The great person who is to de"termine on this question may be a being far above our view; " one so immeasurably high that the greatest abilities " (here he indicated Townshend) " or the most amiable dispositions " (here he pointed to Conway) "may not gain access to him; "a being before whom thrones, dominations, princedoms, "virtues, powers...
Page 273 - It was that conduct which has occasioned the public papers to teem with scurrility and abuse against me, ever since my return to England. It was that conduct which occasioned these charges.
Page 324 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, do of right belong to the state...