The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Band 6Wells and Lilly, 1826 |
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Seite 327 - 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.
Seite 314 - He informs the governor general that " the nabob, wishing to evade the measure of resuming the jaghires, had sent him a message to the following purport: that if the measure proposed was intended to procure the payment of the balance due to the company, he could better and more expeditiously effect that object by taking from his mother the treasures of his father, which he...
Seite 256 - Eajah shall continue faithful to these engagements, and punctual in his payments, and shall pay due obedience to the authority of this government...
Seite 557 - ... authority, in the following words : " If you should proceed to order the restoration of Cheit Sing to the zemindary, from which, by the powers which I legally possessed, and conceive myself legally bound to assert against any subsequent authority to the contrary, derived from the same common source, he was dispossessed for crimes of the greatest enormity, and your council shall resolve to execute the order, I will instantly give up my station and the service.
Seite 346 - ... abettors and instruments of their imputed wrongs, let us at least permit them to be the judges of their own feelings, and prefer their complaints, before we offer to redress them. They will not need to be prompted. I hope I shall not depart from the simplicity of official language in saying...
Seite 558 - Bencoolen respectively, so far and in so much as that it shall not be lawful for any President and Council of Madras, Bombay, or Bencoolen for the time being, to make any orders for commencing hostilities, or declaring or making war, against any Indian Princes or Powers, or for negotiating or concluding any treaty of peace, or other treaty, with any such Indian Princes or Powers, without the consent and approbation of the...
Seite 580 - the Governor-General and Council are required and directed to pay due obedience to all such orders as they shall receive from the Court of Directors of the said United Company, and to correspond from time to time, and constantly and diligently transmit to the said Court an exact particular of all advices or intelligence and of all transactions and matters whatsoever that shall come to their knowledge, relating to the government, commerce, revenues, or interest of the said United Company.
Seite 579 - An act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Seite 320 - 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...
Seite 245 - Illiabad as he now possesses, which are ceded to his majesty as a royal demesne for the support of his dignity and expenses.