 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 448 páginas
...should be taken with the Eaja, in order to bring him to his senses. Moreover, he says : " I was resolved to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, and to exact a penalty which, I was convinced, he was able to bear, from a fund which, I was also convinced,... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 páginas
...should be taken with the Eaja, in order to bring him to his senses. Moreover, he says: " I was resolved to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, and to exact a penalty which, I was convinced, he was able to bear, from a fund which, I was also convinced,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 páginas
...speaking ; after this, it is no wonder that the Rajah's wealth and his offence, the necessities of the judge and the opulence of the delinquent, are...the whole of Mr. Hastings's apology. " The justice &TL&.- policy of exacting a large pecuniary mulct." The resolution " to draw from his guilt the means... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1873 - 698 páginas
...English, and was observed to assume an air of insolence and independence. "I was resolved," says Hastings, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses."* The governor-general set out for Benares, the capital and residence of Cheyte Sing, and so little did... | |
 | J. J. Higginbotham - 1874 - 558 páginas
...demanded. The Rajah did not comply. Hastings viewed his conduct as a crime, and said he was resolved " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses." He proceeded accordingly to Benares. Cheyte Sing advanced to meet him with every mark of respect. On... | |
 | James Grant - 1876 - 602 páginas
...of the 1,000 men, for coercion had been resolved on, and. the Governor-General said, "I am resolved to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses. In a word, I had determined to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 582 páginas
...speaking ; after this, it is no wonder that the Rajah's wealth and his offence, the necessities of the judge and the opulence of the delinquent, are never separated, through the whole of Mr. Hastings 's apology. " The justice and policy of exacting a large pecuniary mulct" The resolution "... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 598 páginas
...plain speaking; after this, it is no wonder that the Rajah's wealth and his offence, the necessities of the judge, and the opulence of the delinquent, are...to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company* s distresses." His determination " to make him pay Iwgely for his pardon, or to execute a... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1892 - 434 páginas
...said, " to make him pay largely for his pardon, to exact a severe vengeance for his delinquency, and to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distress."f On reaching Benares Hastings transmitted to the Raja a statement of his offences. He informed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 páginas
...wealthiest of his vassals as a criminal. " I resolved " — these are the words of Hastings himself — " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, to make him pay largely for 20 his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The... | |
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This is plain speaking ; after this, it is no wonder that the rajah's wealth and his offence, the necessitiesof the judge, and the opulence of the delinquent, are never separated, through the whole of Mr. Hastings's apology. " The justice and policy of... 
