The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 103
... Bristow , the Company's Resident , from the court of Oude , having once before recalled him , as the said Directors express themselves , " without the shadow of a charge - being exhibited against him , " and having , on AGAINST WARREN ...
... Bristow , the Company's Resident , from the court of Oude , having once before recalled him , as the said Directors express themselves , " without the shadow of a charge - being exhibited against him , " and having , on AGAINST WARREN ...
Page 117
... Bristow , did estimate at twenty - three lacs of rupees , or 230,000l . , per an- num but under his , the said Hannay's , management , the collections did very greatly decline ; complaints were made that the countries aforesaid were ...
... Bristow , did estimate at twenty - three lacs of rupees , or 230,000l . , per an- num but under his , the said Hannay's , management , the collections did very greatly decline ; complaints were made that the countries aforesaid were ...
Page 120
... Bristow , desiring him to pursue the same object , he declared his opinion , " that the want of such courts , and the extreme licentious- ness occasioned thereby , is one of the most disreputa- ble defects in his Highness the Nabob's ...
... Bristow , desiring him to pursue the same object , he declared his opinion , " that the want of such courts , and the extreme licentious- ness occasioned thereby , is one of the most disreputa- ble defects in his Highness the Nabob's ...
Page 121
... Bristow's letters , stating the said impediments , or take any no- tice of his remonstrances , but did at length revoke his own instructions , declaring that he , the said Resi- dent , should not presume to act upon the same , and yet ...
... Bristow's letters , stating the said impediments , or take any no- tice of his remonstrances , but did at length revoke his own instructions , declaring that he , the said Resi- dent , should not presume to act upon the same , and yet ...
Page 124
... Bristow , in a letter from Lucknow , dated the 29th January , 1784 , to the Governor - General , the said Warren Hastings , and the Council of Bengal , in the terms following . " The frequent robberies and murders perpetrated in his ...
... Bristow , in a letter from Lucknow , dated the 29th January , 1784 , to the Governor - General , the said Warren Hastings , and the Council of Bengal , in the terms following . " The frequent robberies and murders perpetrated in his ...
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