The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 73
... Holwell urged it forward , and Mr. Vansittart was ex- pected every day to give it effect ; whilst Major Calliaud with this design of ruining the nabob lodged in his breast , suspended in execution , and condemned in principle , kept the ...
... Holwell urged it forward , and Mr. Vansittart was ex- pected every day to give it effect ; whilst Major Calliaud with this design of ruining the nabob lodged in his breast , suspended in execution , and condemned in principle , kept the ...
Page 75
... Holwell , who was governour , and his superiour . This conversation passed in the morn- ing . On that very morning , and whilst the transaction was hot , Major Calliaud writes to Mr. Holwell an account of it . In his letter he informs ...
... Holwell , who was governour , and his superiour . This conversation passed in the morn- ing . On that very morning , and whilst the transaction was hot , Major Calliaud writes to Mr. Holwell an account of it . In his letter he informs ...
Page 77
... Holwell , who soon after came home , was conveyed to the ears of the court of directors . The court of directors wrote out , under date of the 7th of October 1761 , within a little more than a year after this extraordinary transaction ...
... Holwell , who soon after came home , was conveyed to the ears of the court of directors . The court of directors wrote out , under date of the 7th of October 1761 , within a little more than a year after this extraordinary transaction ...
Page 79
... Holwell ; and that therefore to quiet his mind ( to quiet it by a proposition compounded of murder and treason , an odd kind of mind he had , that was to be quieted by such means ! ) but to quiet his mind , and to show , that the ...
... Holwell ; and that therefore to quiet his mind ( to quiet it by a proposition compounded of murder and treason , an odd kind of mind he had , that was to be quieted by such means ! ) but to quiet his mind , and to show , that the ...
Page 80
... Holwell had intended ill to the nabob , and that he approved of those measures , and only postponed them , yet he thought it necessary , he says , to quiet the fears of the nabob ; and from this motive he did an act abhorrent to his ...
... Holwell had intended ill to the nabob , and that he approved of those measures , and only postponed them , yet he thought it necessary , he says , to quiet the fears of the nabob ; and from this motive he did an act abhorrent to his ...
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