 | 1924 - 988 páginas
...decided to inflict upon the Raja the immense, fine of £500,000. In his own words : — " I was 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 for... | |
 | 1842 - 576 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 his par' don, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency.'... | |
 | Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 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 5 distresses, to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency."... | |
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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... 
