The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... tion of the master attendant by virtue of his office ; that he is officially the proper and regular check upon the person who furnishes the stores , and bound by his duty to take care that all contracts for furnishing such stores are ...
... tion of the master attendant by virtue of his office ; that he is officially the proper and regular check upon the person who furnishes the stores , and bound by his duty to take care that all contracts for furnishing such stores are ...
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... tion of those which he was still to receive ; and that the said Warren Hastings has never made good his own voluntary and solemn engagement to the Court of Directors hereinabove mentioned : and as his fail- ure to perform the said ...
... tion of those which he was still to receive ; and that the said Warren Hastings has never made good his own voluntary and solemn engagement to the Court of Directors hereinabove mentioned : and as his fail- ure to perform the said ...
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... tion is highly aggravated by the following circum- stances connected with it . That from the death of Sir John Clavering to the arrival of Sir Eyre Coote in Bengal the provisional command of the army had de- volved to and been vested in ...
... tion is highly aggravated by the following circum- stances connected with it . That from the death of Sir John Clavering to the arrival of Sir Eyre Coote in Bengal the provisional command of the army had de- volved to and been vested in ...
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... tion the said Warren Hastings has been guilty of a high breach of trust and duty , in the unnecessary ex- penditure of the Company's money , and in subjecting the Company to a profusion of expense , at all times wholly unjustifiable ...
... tion the said Warren Hastings has been guilty of a high breach of trust and duty , in the unnecessary ex- penditure of the Company's money , and in subjecting the Company to a profusion of expense , at all times wholly unjustifiable ...
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... tion of every sort . That , instead of promoting a strict inquiry into his conduct for the clearance of his inno- cence and honor , he did repeatedly endeavor to elude and stifle all inquiry by attempting to dissolve the . meetings of ...
... tion of every sort . That , instead of promoting a strict inquiry into his conduct for the clearance of his inno- cence and honor , he did repeatedly endeavor to elude and stifle all inquiry by attempting to dissolve the . meetings of ...
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