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Pàgina 38
... revenue , and the ill consequences which arose from them . I allude to those shocking transactions which nobody can mention without horror , in Rampore and Dinagepore , during the gov- ernment of Mr. Hastings , and which we attempted to ...
... revenue , and the ill consequences which arose from them . I allude to those shocking transactions which nobody can mention without horror , in Rampore and Dinagepore , during the gov- ernment of Mr. Hastings , and which we attempted to ...
Pàgina 77
... revenue , and the whole administration of the law , rested in him . Such was the sovereignty he possessed within Benares ; but he was a subordinate sovereign , dependent upon a superior , according to the tenor of his compact ...
... revenue , and the whole administration of the law , rested in him . Such was the sovereignty he possessed within Benares ; but he was a subordinate sovereign , dependent upon a superior , according to the tenor of his compact ...
Pàgina 90
... revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of the last degree of indolence , with the last degree of rapacity . A man , of whom Mr. Hastings declared , that he had wasted and destroyed by his misgovernment the fairest ...
... revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of the last degree of indolence , with the last degree of rapacity . A man , of whom Mr. Hastings declared , that he had wasted and destroyed by his misgovernment the fairest ...
Pàgina 117
... revenue in the province of Rohil Cund ; a country now ruined and desolated , but once the garden of the world . It was from the depth of that horrible devastating system that he gave this ridiculous , contemptible evidence , which if it ...
... revenue in the province of Rohil Cund ; a country now ruined and desolated , but once the garden of the world . It was from the depth of that horrible devastating system that he gave this ridiculous , contemptible evidence , which if it ...
Pàgina 124
... revenue of Benares . I must first state to your lordships , that , in the year 1780 , he made a demand upon that country , which , by his own account , if it had been complied with , would only have left £ 23,000 a year , for the ...
... revenue of Benares . I must first state to your lordships , that , in the year 1780 , he made a demand upon that country , which , by his own account , if it had been complied with , would only have left £ 23,000 a year , for the ...
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