A Narrative of the Late Transactions at Benares: By Warren Hastings, EsqJ. Debrett, (successor to Mr. Almon), 1782 - 132 pages |
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... purpose to be changed , or my duty to be over - ruled , by any verbal conceffions or de- clarations , which were made with little coft , and for the observance of which I had no pledge nor warrant to credit them . He pleaded his ...
... purpose to be changed , or my duty to be over - ruled , by any verbal conceffions or de- clarations , which were made with little coft , and for the observance of which I had no pledge nor warrant to credit them . He pleaded his ...
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... purposes which I had in contemplation concerning them , On the first intelligence of the war with France , in July , 1778 , it was refolved in Council , that Rajah Cheit sing fhould be required to contri- bute an extraordinary fubfidy ...
... purposes which I had in contemplation concerning them , On the first intelligence of the war with France , in July , 1778 , it was refolved in Council , that Rajah Cheit sing fhould be required to contri- bute an extraordinary fubfidy ...
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... purpose , that the balance of the fubfidy , which was two lacks and a half of rupees , was discharged . In the mean time the refident received an order from the board to remit the money , as he received it , by bills to the Pay Mafter ...
... purpose , that the balance of the fubfidy , which was two lacks and a half of rupees , was discharged . In the mean time the refident received an order from the board to remit the money , as he received it , by bills to the Pay Mafter ...
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... purposes of the most dangerous tendency to the Company's dominion . In a word , I had deter- mined to make him pay largely for his pardon , or to exact a fevere vengeance for his past delin- quency . Those who have been accustomed to ...
... purposes of the most dangerous tendency to the Company's dominion . In a word , I had deter- mined to make him pay largely for his pardon , or to exact a fevere vengeance for his past delin- quency . Those who have been accustomed to ...
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... intended to threaten , or to ufe a degree of violence , for no other purpose than to draw from the object of it a mercenary atone- ment for my own private emolument , and suffer all " y all this tumult to terminate in an oftenfible ( 23 )
... intended to threaten , or to ufe a degree of violence , for no other purpose than to draw from the object of it a mercenary atone- ment for my own private emolument , and suffer all " y all this tumult to terminate in an oftenfible ( 23 )
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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...