A Narrative of the Late Transactions at Benares: By Warren Hastings, EsqJ. Debrett, (successor to Mr. Almon), 1782 - 132 pages |
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... a worse discharged it . The next year the fame demand was repeated , and he attempted in like manner to elude it , affecting to borrow money in fmall fums , and to fell his plate 1 } plate and jewels to raise the fum ; nor.
... a worse discharged it . The next year the fame demand was repeated , and he attempted in like manner to elude it , affecting to borrow money in fmall fums , and to fell his plate 1 } plate and jewels to raise the fum ; nor.
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... demand which would be made upon him , this being the period for it , of the fubfidy for the current year , and that he would ufe no delay in difcharging it . I at the fame time explained to Saddanund the nature of the demand , its ...
... demand which would be made upon him , this being the period for it , of the fubfidy for the current year , and that he would ufe no delay in difcharging it . I at the fame time explained to Saddanund the nature of the demand , its ...
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... demand was accord- ingly made ; and the Rajah answered it with a liberal and unreferved declaration of his acqui- efcence . I expected the immediate payment of the whole fum according to his engagement , and I placed a reliance upon it ...
... demand was accord- ingly made ; and the Rajah answered it with a liberal and unreferved declaration of his acqui- efcence . I expected the immediate payment of the whole fum according to his engagement , and I placed a reliance upon it ...
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... demand was made , and the whole payment confequently due , in July , that it was not until the month of October , nor until the fame constraint was practised to comper his obedience as had been used in the preceding year , by an order ...
... demand was made , and the whole payment confequently due , in July , that it was not until the month of October , nor until the fame constraint was practised to comper his obedience as had been used in the preceding year , by an order ...
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... demand fhould be made on Rajah Cheit Sing for all the cavalry in his pay , which , he could fpare for our service . At that time we ftood in need of every aid that could be devifed to repell the multiplied dangers which furrounded us ...
... demand fhould be made on Rajah Cheit Sing for all the cavalry in his pay , which , he could fpare for our service . At that time we ftood in need of every aid that could be devifed to repell the multiplied dangers which furrounded us ...
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Affidavit affiftance againſt alſo anſwer arrived Aumil battalion of fepoys Begums Benares Bidjeygur Buxar Calcutta cauſe Cawn Chunar circumftance Colonel command Company conduct confequences confideration confifted defign defired detachment ditto encreaſe enemy Engliſh eſtabliſhed exprefs faid fame fent fervant fervice feven fhall fhould ficca rupees fide fince firft firſt fituation five lacks fome Fowke Francis Fowke ftate ftrength ftrong fubfidy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fuperior fupport Fyzabad Governor-General greateſt himſelf Honourable horſe iffue inftant infurrection interefts itſelf juſtice lacks of rupees lefs letter Lieut Lucknow Lutteefpoor Major Popham Markham Matchlock meaſure ment moft moſt muſt myſelf Nabob narrative obfervation occafion officers orders paffed paſs paſt Pateetah payment perfon poffeffed poffeffion poffible prefent purpoſe raiſe Rajah Cheit Sing Ramnagur received Refident refolved refpect regiment requeſt Sepoys ſhall Sing's Sircar ſtate ſuch Sunnud thefe themſelves theſe thoſe tion troops uſe WARREN HASTINGS WILLIAM MARKHAM Zemidarry Zemidars
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Page 11 - Zemeedary could contribute, appeared to me of less consideration as such, than as they were evidences of a deliberate and systematic conduct, aiming at the total subversion of the authority of the Company, and the erection of his own independency on its ruins.
Page 15 - I resolved," these are the words of Hastings himself, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, — to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency.
Page 12 - Marattas, and other powers, who either were, or might eventually become enemies to the company; and, that he was collecting, or had prepared, every provifion for open revolt, waiting only for a proper feafon to declare it, which was fuppofed to depend, either on the arrival of a French armament, or on a Maratta invafion. It will appear not a little extraordinary, that...
Page 20 - Governor tells you bis motive for this extraordinary proceeding, fo contrary to every mode of juftice towards either a prince or a fubject, fairly and without difguife ; and he puts into your hands the key of his whole conduct : " I will fuppofe, for a moment, that I have acted with unwarrantable rigour towards Cheit Sing, and even with injuftice.
Page 126 - Whether there was not a compact between him and the Company which specified that he was only to pay them a certain annual tribute ? ' * Their answers to these questions show more desire than ability to support the Governor-General.
Page 11 - Bidjeygur and Lutteefpoor, and made yearly additions to it ; that he kept up a large military establishment both of cavalry, of disciplined and irregular infantry, and of artillery ; that he had the above, and many other fortresses of strong construction, and in good repair, and constantly...
Page 12 - ... the above and many other fortresses of strong construction and in good repair, and constantly well stored and garrisoned ; that his aumils and tenants were encouraged and habituated to treat English passengers with inhospitality and with enmity ; that he maintained a correspondence with the...
Page 13 - Sing obtained from our influence exerted by myself the first legal title that his family ever possessed of property in the land of which he till then was only the Aumil, and of which he became the acknowledged Zemeedar, by a Sunnud granted to him by the Nabob Shujah-udDowlah at my instance in the month of September 1773.
Page 20 - Calcutta impreffed with the belief that extraordinary means were necefiary, and thofe exerted with a ftrong hand, to preferve the Company's interefts from finking under the accumulated -weight which...