The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 24
... means to gratify himself in playing great ones ; but Mr. Hastings has himself given him , upon the records of the Company , a character which would at least justify the Council in making some inquiry into charges made by him . First ...
... means to gratify himself in playing great ones ; but Mr. Hastings has himself given him , upon the records of the Company , a character which would at least justify the Council in making some inquiry into charges made by him . First ...
Page 28
... means were taken to detect any of his own iniquities . And here it becomes necessary to mention anoth- er circumstance of history : that the legislature , not trusting entirely to the Governor - General and Coun- cil , had sent out a ...
... means were taken to detect any of his own iniquities . And here it becomes necessary to mention anoth- er circumstance of history : that the legislature , not trusting entirely to the Governor - General and Coun- cil , had sent out a ...
Page 30
... means by which he was removed , a part of the charge was not strangled with him . Whilst the pro- cess against Nundcomar was carrying on before Sir Elijah Impey , the process was continuing against Mr. Hastings in other modes ; the ...
... means by which he was removed , a part of the charge was not strangled with him . Whilst the pro- cess against Nundcomar was carrying on before Sir Elijah Impey , the process was continuing against Mr. Hastings in other modes ; the ...
Page 36
... means taken to elude their discovery . I am now giving your Lordships that general view which may serve to characterize Mr. Hastings's ad- ministration in all the other parts of it . It was not true in fact , as Mr. Hastings gives out ...
... means taken to elude their discovery . I am now giving your Lordships that general view which may serve to characterize Mr. Hastings's ad- ministration in all the other parts of it . It was not true in fact , as Mr. Hastings gives out ...
Page 40
... means of the two persons I have already mentioned , namely , the deputy - treasurer and the accountant , - paying them in and taking bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavoring to ...
... means of the two persons I have already mentioned , namely , the deputy - treasurer and the accountant , - paying them in and taking bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavoring to ...
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