The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 9Little, Brown,, 1866 - Great Britain |
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abuse affairs aforesaid agent appear appointed arbitrary power authority banian Barwell Benares Bengal Berar Bombay breach Bristow British Calcutta charge Clavering Company's conduct consequence contract corrupt Coun Court of Directors crimes criminal declared defence direct dominions duty East India Company emoluments endeavor engage Esquire established expense Fort William Governor Governor-General and Council guaranty Hastings's Holwell honor Hyder Ali instructions jaghire justice Khân's letter Lords Lordships Lucknow Mahomed Reza Khân Mahomedan Mahratta empire Mahrattas Major Calliaud manner means ment Middleton minister Mogul Mogul empire Munny Begum Nabob Fyzoola Khân Nabob of Oude native opinion oppression Palmer peace person Peshwa possession pretended prince principles proceedings proposals province Rajah Ranna received Resident resolution revenue Rohillas servants Sir Eyre Coote Sir John Clavering sovereign sterling thereby thereof thousand pounds tion transaction treaty of Chunar troops Vizier Warren Hastings whole
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Page 455 - ... all the evil practices, all the cruelties, oppressions, extortions, corruptions, briberies, of all the ferocious usurpers, desperate robbers, thieves, cheats, and jugglers, that ever had office from one end of Asia to another, and, consolidating all this mass of the crimes and absurdities of barbarous domination into one code, establish it as the whole duty of an English governor ? I believe that, till this time, so audacious a thing was never attempted by man.
Page 454 - Here he has declared his opinion, that he is a despotic prince, that he is to use arbitrary power ; and of course all his acts are covered with that shield. " I know" says he, " the constitution of Asia only from its practice.
Page 458 - It is a contradiction in terms ; it is blasphemy in religion ; it is wickedness in politicks, to say, that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 401 - Calcutta more completely than we had before possessed it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining. This was the first small seminal principle of the immense territorial acquisitions we have since made in India. Many circumstances of this acquisition I pass by. There is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments.
Page 266 - 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...
Page 343 - ... there were no tribunals at all. In my humble opinion, it would be better a thousand times to give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassador, representing certain grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr.
Page 331 - Lordships' justice. For we are men, my Lords ; and men are so made, that it is not only the greatness of danger, but the value of the adventure, which measures the degree of our concern in every undertaking. I solemnly assure your Lordships that no standard is sufficient to estimate the value which the Commons set upon the event of the cause they now bring before you. My Lords, the business of this day is not the business of this man, it is not solely whether the prisoner at the bar be found innocent...
Page 455 - Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to give him ; your Lordships have not ; nor the Commons, nor the whole legislature. We have no arbitrary power to give, because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give.
Page 337 - We charge this offender with no crimes, that have not arisen from passions, which it is criminal to harbor; with no offences, that have not their root in avarice, rapacity, pride, insolence, ferocity, treachery, cruelty, malignity of temper; in short, in nothing, that does not argue a total extinction of all moral principle ; that does not manifest an inveterate blackness of heart, died in grain with malice, vitiated, corrupted, gangrened to the very core.
Page 454 - Mahomedan constitution. But if it were, do your Lordships really think that the nation would bear, that any human creature would bear, to hear an English governor defend himself on such principles ? or, if...