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... lefs fo ; and were still more interefting to Englishmen . Within the period of which we treat , one parliament had been fuddenly diffolved , a new one fpeedily called , and and we had the hiftory of three feffions , filled PREFACE .
... lefs fo ; and were still more interefting to Englishmen . Within the period of which we treat , one parliament had been fuddenly diffolved , a new one fpeedily called , and and we had the hiftory of three feffions , filled PREFACE .
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... parliament relative to the Company , from the time that the Secret and the Select Indian Commit- tees were appointed by the Houfe of Commons in the year 1781 , to the period which comes properly within the line of our narrative ...
... parliament relative to the Company , from the time that the Secret and the Select Indian Commit- tees were appointed by the Houfe of Commons in the year 1781 , to the period which comes properly within the line of our narrative ...
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... parliament relative to the affairs of the Eaft India company . Two Indian committees appointed by the House of Commons in 1781. Objects of the felect committee . Objects of the fecret committee . The King's approbation of their ...
... parliament relative to the affairs of the Eaft India company . Two Indian committees appointed by the House of Commons in 1781. Objects of the felect committee . Objects of the fecret committee . The King's approbation of their ...
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... parliament , armed with the higheft , authority of the kingdom . To fome fuch appointment he looked up for the prefervation of India , the re- establishment of our national cha racter , and the deliverance of a moft unfortunate and ...
... parliament , armed with the higheft , authority of the kingdom . To fome fuch appointment he looked up for the prefervation of India , the re- establishment of our national cha racter , and the deliverance of a moft unfortunate and ...
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... parliament , and fecured in the quiet poffeffion of his dominions against the bafe and infamous arts of the Nabob and his abettors . As an inftance of the defperate lengths to which the Nabob had been encou- raged to proceed , it was ...
... parliament , and fecured in the quiet poffeffion of his dominions against the bafe and infamous arts of the Nabob and his abettors . As an inftance of the defperate lengths to which the Nabob had been encou- raged to proceed , it was ...
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Page 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
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