The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 189
... Sing to the governour - general and council : but the co- py of the paper alluded to is wanting . ] * * Here is a ... Gunga Govin Sing , from whom he ( Mr. Hastings ) had received 30,000l . as a part of a bribe . Now though it is a large ...
... Sing to the governour - general and council : but the co- py of the paper alluded to is wanting . ] * * Here is a ... Gunga Govin Sing , from whom he ( Mr. Hastings ) had received 30,000l . as a part of a bribe . Now though it is a large ...
Page 190
... Gunga Govin Sing ( whom , as justice required , Mr. Hastings distinguished by the highest marks of his confi- dence , ) there was not a man in Bengal , perhaps not upon earth , a match for this Debi Sing . He was not an unknown subject ...
... Gunga Govin Sing ( whom , as justice required , Mr. Hastings distinguished by the highest marks of his confi- dence , ) there was not a man in Bengal , perhaps not upon earth , a match for this Debi Sing . He was not an unknown subject ...
Page 192
... Gunga Govin Sing . In the mean time he left Debi Sing to the direction of his own good genius . Debi Sing was stigmatized in the company's records , his reputation was gone , but his funds were safe . In the ar- rangement made by Mr ...
... Gunga Govin Sing . In the mean time he left Debi Sing to the direction of his own good genius . Debi Sing was stigmatized in the company's records , his reputation was gone , but his funds were safe . In the ar- rangement made by Mr ...
Page 195
... Sing . It was necessary to deliver over the natives to his avarice . By the intervention of bribe brokerage he united the two great rivals in iniquity , who before from an emulation of crimes were enemies to each other , Gunga Govin Sing ...
... Sing . It was necessary to deliver over the natives to his avarice . By the intervention of bribe brokerage he united the two great rivals in iniquity , who before from an emulation of crimes were enemies to each other , Gunga Govin Sing ...
Page 219
... Gunga Govin Sing to make them ; and for that appointment , and for the whole train of subordinate vil- lany , which followed the placing iniquity in the chief seat of government , Mr. Hastings is answerable.He is answera- ble , I say ...
... Gunga Govin Sing to make them ; and for that appointment , and for the whole train of subordinate vil- lany , which followed the placing iniquity in the chief seat of government , Mr. Hastings is answerable.He is answera- ble , I say ...
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