The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Henry G. Bohn, 1855 - Great Britain |
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Page 309 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 303 - SIR : When this note is delivered to you by Hoolas Roy, I have to desire that you order the two prisoners to be put in irons, keeping them from all food, etc., agreeably to my instructions of yesterday. NATH. MIDDLETON."] The begums...
Page 2 - This language is, indeed, of necessary use in the executive department of the Company's affairs; but it is not necessary to parliament. A language, so foreign from all the ideas and habits of the far greater part of the members of this House, has a tendency to disgust them with all sorts of inquiry concerning this subject.
Page 178 - that no governor-general, or any of the council, shall, directly or indirectly, accept, receive, or take, of or from any person or persons, or on any account whatsoever, any present, gift, donation, gratuity, or reward, pecuniary or otherwise ; or any promise or engagement for any of the aforesaid.
Page 240 - Eajah shall continue faithful to these engagements, and punctual in his payments, and shall pay due obedience to the authority of this government, no more demands shall be made upon him by the honourable Company of ANT KIND ; or, on any pretence whatsoever, shall any person be allowed to interfere with his authority, or to disturb the peace of his country.
Page 329 - I hope, I shall not depart from the simplicity of official language, in saying, that the majesty of justice ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs and the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishment before trial, and even before accusation.
Page 34 - Notwithstanding the famine in 1770, which wasted Bengal in a manner dreadful beyond all example, the investment, by a variety of successive expedients, many of them of the most dangerous nature and tendency, was forcibly kept up ; and even in that forced and unnatural state, it gathered strength almost every year. The debts contracted in the infancy of the system were gradually reduced, and the advances to contractors and manufacturers were regularly made ;*so that the goods from Bengal, purchased...
Page 229 - Illiabad as he now possesses, which are ceded to his majesty as a royal demesne for the support of his dignity and expenses.