The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803: From which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates".T.C. Hansard, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... interest of lord Hood and Mr. nounced upon the incompetency of the Fox were already completely provided for . court , and the illegality of the proceed- The question now was purely public and ings . The House , by its own act , had ...
... interest of lord Hood and Mr. nounced upon the incompetency of the Fox were already completely provided for . court , and the illegality of the proceed- The question now was purely public and ings . The House , by its own act , had ...
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... interest in the former , It seemed to be a maxim with his Ma- could not regard the latter with indiffer- jesty's ministers to grant no species of in- ence ; in consequence , therefore , of this formation which the House had any right ...
... interest in the former , It seemed to be a maxim with his Ma- could not regard the latter with indiffer- jesty's ministers to grant no species of in- ence ; in consequence , therefore , of this formation which the House had any right ...
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... interest ; the consequence was , a considerable deal of money was lent him , some at 30 , 35 , and 36 per cent . interest , and by way of security , the nabob gave the lenders assignments upon his territo- rial revenues ; it appearing ...
... interest ; the consequence was , a considerable deal of money was lent him , some at 30 , 35 , and 36 per cent . interest , and by way of security , the nabob gave the lenders assignments upon his territo- rial revenues ; it appearing ...
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... interest and whose wish it was to depreciate the institution , and both to describe and render them as ineffi ... interests of the country from laying papers upon the table of either House of parliament that were already in print . Great ...
... interest and whose wish it was to depreciate the institution , and both to describe and render them as ineffi ... interests of the country from laying papers upon the table of either House of parliament that were already in print . Great ...
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... interest among the servants of that Company , and among others both at home and abroad . By engaging them in his interests , the use of the Company's power might be obtained without their ostensible authority ; the power might even he ...
... interest among the servants of that Company , and among others both at home and abroad . By engaging them in his interests , the use of the Company's power might be obtained without their ostensible authority ; the power might even he ...
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Page 225 - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page 223 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for awhile on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 223 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals...
Page 227 - ... built by ambition ; but by the ambition of an insatiable benevolence, which, not contented with reigning in the dispensation of happiness during the contracted term of human life, had strained, with all the Teachings and graspings of a vivacious mind, to extend the dominion of their bounty beyond the limits of nature, and to perpetuate themselves through generations of generations, the guardians, the protectors, the nourishers of mankind.
Page 225 - ... will regard all this raving as it ought to be regarded. In order that the people, after a long period of vexation and plunder, may be in a condition to maintain government, government must begin by maintaining them. Here the road to economy lies not through receipt, but through expense ; and in that country nature has given no short cut to your object.
Page 221 - English for ever from assuming an equality, much less a superiority in the Carnatic. In pursuance of this treasonable project (treasonable on the part of the English ) they extinguished the Company as a sovereign power in that part of India; they withdrew the...
Page 225 - I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to...
Page 223 - Among the victims to this magnificent plan of universal plunder, worthy of the heroic avarice of the projectors, you have all heard (and he has made himself to be well remembered) of an Indian chief called Hyder AH Khan.
Page 189 - ... as it recedes from our view. In our politics, as in our common conduct, we shall be worse than infants, if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment, and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a briar at our nose of greater magnitude, than an oak at five hundred yards distance.
Page 225 - ... us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is. But I find myself unable to manage it with decorum. These details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that, on better thoughts, I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conceptions.