The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 294
... Bristow was constituted " the instrument of its formation and the trustee " for the management of it . The Nabob Azoph " ul Dowlah was deprived of a large part of his " inheritance ; I mean the province of Benares , " attached by a very ...
... Bristow was constituted " the instrument of its formation and the trustee " for the management of it . The Nabob Azoph " ul Dowlah was deprived of a large part of his " inheritance ; I mean the province of Benares , " attached by a very ...
Page 300
... Bristow , at that time Resident for the Company in Oude ; and to this arrangement Azoph ul Dowlah and his advisers lent a willing ear . What did Mr. Hastings then say of this transaction ? He called it a violent assumption of power on ...
... Bristow , at that time Resident for the Company in Oude ; and to this arrangement Azoph ul Dowlah and his advisers lent a willing ear . What did Mr. Hastings then say of this transaction ? He called it a violent assumption of power on ...
Page 309
... Bristow had been nominated to the office of Resident by the Court of Directors . Mr. Hastings , by an Act of Parliament , was or- dered to obey the Court of Directors . He posi- tively refuses to receive Mr. Bristow , for no other ...
... Bristow had been nominated to the office of Resident by the Court of Directors . Mr. Hastings , by an Act of Parliament , was or- dered to obey the Court of Directors . He posi- tively refuses to receive Mr. Bristow , for no other ...
Page 310
... Bristow to the office of Resident in Oude . He for some time refused to nominate Mr. Bristow to that office ; and even when he was forced , against his will , to permit him for a while to be there , he sent Mr. Middleton and Mr. Johnson ...
... Bristow to the office of Resident in Oude . He for some time refused to nominate Mr. Bristow to that office ; and even when he was forced , against his will , to permit him for a while to be there , he sent Mr. Middleton and Mr. Johnson ...
Page 311
... Bristow , upon a former occasion , ( it is in page 507 , of the printed Minutes ) , that your Lordships may see his ... Bristow ; I read it in order to shew , that he dared to defy the Court of Directors , so early as the year 1776 ...
... Bristow , upon a former occasion , ( it is in page 507 , of the printed Minutes ) , that your Lordships may see his ... Bristow ; I read it in order to shew , that he dared to defy the Court of Directors , so early as the year 1776 ...
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