The History of the British Empire in India, Τόμος 3W.H. Allen, 1842 |
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affairs afforded allies Ameer Singh appeared appointment army arrangement arrival attack authority battalions British force British government Candy Carnatic cavalry cession Ceylon CHAP chief civil claims Colonel Scott command Company's government consideration Court declared defence demand dependent desire determined Dhoondia dispatched dominions duty Earl of Mornington East-India Company effect endeavour enemy engagements English established European exercise favour feelings French Gawilghur governor governor-general Henry Wellesley Holkar honour hostilities Hussein Hyderabad India infantry interests khans letter Lord Lord Clive Lord Cornwallis Lucknow Madras Mahratta Marquis Wellesley Mauritius ment military Mootto Sawmy musnud Mysore Nabob native Nawaub necessary negotiation Nizam object officers Omdut-ul-Omrah Oude palace party payment peace Peishwa person Poona possession prince proposed Rajah of Berar received regard Saadut Scindia Seringapatam servants subsidiary force Surat territory tion Tippoo Sultan treaty Trincomalee vakeels vernment views Vizier XVII XVIII СНАР
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Σελίδα 355 - Camden opened their fire as soon as their guns could have effect; but before any other ship could get into action, the enemy hauled their wind, and stood away to the eastward under all the sail they could set. - At two PM...
Σελίδα 89 - Government shall occasionally judge it necessary to offer to him, with a view to the economy of his finances, the better collection of his revenues, the administration of justice, the extension of commerce, the encouragement of trade, agriculture, and industry, or any other objects connected with the advancement of His Highness's interests, the happiness of his people, and the mutual welfare of both States.
Σελίδα 240 - They should be well informed of the true and sound principles of the British constitution, and sufficiently grounded in the general principles of ethics, civil jurisprudence, the law of nations, and general history, in order that they may be enabled to discriminate the characteristic differences of the several codes of law administered within the British Empire in India, and practically to combine the spirit of each in the dispensation of justice, and in the maintenance of order and good government....
Σελίδα 397 - British artillery in the field, " countries of many hundred coss should be overrun and plundered and burnt. That he (meaning the Commander-in-Chief) should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and that calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his (Holkar's) army, which overwhelms like the waves of the sea.
Σελίδα 289 - The result was, in the words of the governor-general, " to found an independent French state on the most vulnerable part of the Company's frontier.
Σελίδα 250 - England ; and completed previously to their departure for India. It may be contended, that many of the enumerated evils may be precluded by not allowing the writers to proceed to India until they shall have reached a more advanced age, than that at which they now usually embark, and by requiring them to undergo examinations in England, for the purpose of ascertaining their proficiency in the branches of knowledge necessary to the discharge of their duties in India.
Σελίδα 150 - perhaps the most salutary and useful measure which has been adopted since the acquisition of the dewanny of Bengal." It has been mentioned that the necessary measures for the settlement of the Carnatic were deferred partly with a view to the previous completion of some negotiations pending with the nizam. These ended in the conclusion of a new treaty with that prince, under which provision was made for an increase of the subsidiary force maintained by the Company for the defence of his dominions,...
Σελίδα 177 - ... than by maintaining constantly in those dominions such a force as shall at all times be adequate to your effectual protection, independently of any reinforcement which the exigency might otherwise require, but which might not be disposable in proper season." The views of the governor-general were thus most clearly and distinctly explained. Should it be said, that if the above construction of the treaty be correct, the Vizier, as to the expense of supporting the British force, was altogeCHAP....
Σελίδα 20 - Caubul ; or even if he had entered into any negotiation with France, of which the object was at all obscure ; it might be our duty to resort, in the first instance, to his construction of proceedings, which, being of a doubtful character, might admit of a satisfactory explanation. But where there is no doubt there can be no matter for explanation. The act of...
Σελίδα 326 - ... and other light troops Their line extended above five miles, having in their rear the village and extensive gardens and enclosures of Argaum ; and in their front a plain, which, however, was much cut by water courses, &c.