| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...Hastings's apology. " The justice and policy of exacting a large pecuniary mulct." The resolution " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses." His determination " to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to execute a severe vengeance for past... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1867 - 482 pages
...therefore, " to make him pay largely for his pardon, to exact a severe vengeance for his delinquency, and to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses." Cheyt sin •! Hastings was about to proceed to Benares to excessive tine, meet the vakeel of the raja... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1867 - 488 pages
...therefore, " to make him pay largely for his pardon, to exact a severe vengeance for his delinquency, and to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses." Ch sintfs Hastings was about to proceed to Benares to escessive fine, meet the vakeel of the raja of... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1873 - 698 pages
...English, and was observed to assume an air of insolence and independence. "I was resolved," says Hastings, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses."* The governor-general set out for Benares, the capital and residence of Cheyte Sing, and so little did... | |
| J. J. Higginbotham - 1874 - 558 pages
...horse was next demanded. The Rajah did not comply. Hastings viewed his conduct as a crime, and said he was resolved " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses." He proceeded accordingly to Benares. Cheyte Sing advanced to meet him with every mark of respect. On... | |
| James Grant - 1876 - 602 pages
...the matter of the 1,000 men, for coercion had been resolved on, and. the Governor-General said, "I am resolved to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses. In a word, I had determined to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance... | |
| Sir George Forrest - 1892 - 434 pages
...said, " to make him pay largely for his pardon, to exact a severe vengeance for his delinquency, and to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distress."f On reaching Benares Hastings transmitted to the Raja a statement of his offences. He informed... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 pages
...wealthiest of his vassals as a criminal. " 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 20 his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...wealthiest of his vassals as a criminal. " I resolved" — these are the words of Hastings himself — ; to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan... | |
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