Six Months at Martaban During the Burmese War: And, An Essay on the Political Causes which Led to the Establishment of British Power in India |
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49th regiment affairs Akyab annexation Arcot arms army Arracan Artillery attack on Martaban Bengal boats British power Burman Burmese provinces Calcutta camp cause chief Clive command Company council Court cutch Deccan Delhi dominions Dupleix East elephant empire enemy English established European favour Ferooze fire force French gold governor Governor-general guns Hastings hill stockade Hindoos Hindostan honour inhabitants jungle lacs Lord Cornwallis Madras Martaban ment mighty miles Mogul Mogul empire Moulmein nabob nation native princes occasion officers pagoda party peace Pegu Peguers picquets Plassy Pondicherry ponies poor possession power in India present Prome protection rajahs Rangoon revenue rising factory river ruler rupees Salween sent Sepoys settlement Shan shot Sitang steamer Subadar success Suraj-u-Dowlah sway taken Taliens teak Tenasserim Tenasserim Provinces territories timber tion Tippoo Tippoo Sahib trade treaty treaty of Yandaboo troops vast villages Warren Hastings white pagoda whole Zeminders
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Page 119 - Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice, to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds, To chase each partial purpose from his breast, And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of Truth and Virtue up the steep ascent Of Nature calls him to his high reward, 'The applauding smile of Heaven...
Page 105 - India will be satisfied, that the task, of conquest was. slight in comparison with that which awaits us, the preservation of the empire acquired. To the acquisition, men have been encouraged and impelled by the strongest of all the impulses of the human mind: fortune and fame have attended success; the preservation must be effected by that deep and penetrating wisdom, which, looking far to its objects, will oftener meet reproach than praise, and the very excellence of which will consist in the gradual...
Page 99 - We had lost our glory, honour, and reputation every where but in India: there the country had a heaven-born general, who had never learned the art of war, nor was his name enrolled among the great officers who had for many years received their country's pay ; yet was he not afraid to attack a numerous army with a handful of men.
Page 47 - Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation...
Page 115 - the admitted abuses which it corrected, the great strength of the administration in England at the time when it was introduced, the ability and influence of the president of the board of control, and the firmness and integrity of the nobleman who was first invested with the high powers which the amended bill of 1786 so wisely gave to the governor-general of India, — all contributed to cover its defects, and to bring its merits into the most prominent point of view.
Page 119 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice; to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds; To chase each partial purpose from his breast; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of truth and virtue,...
Page 109 - ... write a petition against them ; the conspiracy not proved. A few days after, Nundcomar accused of forgery, condemned, and hanged, amidst the tears and shrieks of his countrymen."*
Page 115 - India; all contributed to cover its defects, and to bring its merits into the most prominent point of view. But subsequent events have shown, that it required all these aids to render it successful, and that the failure of any one of them would have had the most serious effect upon its operation.
Page 117 - Honours gathered round him thick in his old age. In 1839 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws amid the enthusiastic plaudits of an unusually crowded Theatre. In 1842 he was permitted to resign his Stamp Distributorship in...
Page 31 - The guns of the three cutters opened on them with shell and canister shot, "which made them scamper away as fast as their legs could carry them, but from the frying-pan into the fire. The infantry met them as they were taking to their heels, and opened a raking fire upon them.