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Search - Writings And Speeches - Vol. III.

Writings And Speeches Vol III
Author: Edmund Burke

The Writings W Speeches of EDMUND BURKE - CONTENTS OF VOL. 111. PAGX SPEECH O N THE NABOB O F ARCOTS D EBTS F , ebruary 28, 1785 with an Appendix . 1 SUBSTASCE O F SPEECH O N THE ARBEY E STIXATESF, e bruary 9, 1790 . . 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME THREE The House occupied by the East India Company in Leadenhall Street, as refaced in 1726 . F... more »ronti. vpiece From a coloured drawing made in March, 1800, by T. Malton, in the India Offlce. By Permission of the Secretary of State for India. 3Iarie Antoinette . . . . . . . . . En. graced Title From an engraving by L. Schiavonetti, after the painting by Edward Stroehling. The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan Page 229 From a drawing in crayons made in 1788, by John Russell, R. A., in the National Portrait Gallery. Rlarie Antoinette . . . . . . . . . . . 331 From an engraving by Danguin, after the painting by Mme. Lebrun. Louis XVI. . . . . . . . . - - - . - U 406 From an engraving in the British Museum by J. U. Miiller, after a painting from life by Duplessis. S P E E C H ON THE MOTION W E FOR PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE DZRECTIONS FOR CHARGING THE NABOB OF ARCOTS PRIVATE DEBTS TO EUROPEANS ON THE REVENUES OF THE CARNATIC, FEBRUARY 28, IiS5. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAm G SEVERAL DOCUMENTS. EvraOOa ri rrpdrrcrv ixpqv div8pa rGv IIhhrwvoc aAip ruror hovc qAwir v 6oypbm u dpa repcopGv dvep. rrove iehiovc 70 s K P T C C L O U j O KW V S , S Jvap v airrocc , uvverv, oipar, c jj8q rb K KYCCOY C . QSOVU S C td rb 9eopruL. c ipyaomjprov rGv rpbc d i z r r a e ciywvi err9ar oroljrovc K ra3ra 705 Qeoir rrvppaxoOvroe p, h e p o h rq ev. J n r u E p lst . l. ADVERTISEMENT. T HAT the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enter fully into the spirit of the transaction on occasion of wl1ic. h it was delirered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that, among the princes dependent on this nation in the sontllern part of India, tlle most considerable at present is commonly known by the title of the Nabob of Arcot. This prince owed the establisllme lt of his government, against the claims of his elder brother, as well as those of other competitors, to the arms and influence of the British East India Company. Being thus established in a considerable part of the domillions he now possesses, he began, about the year 1765, to form, at the instigation as he asserts of the servants of the East Iriclia Company, a variety of designs for the f r t hexrt ension of his territories. Some years after, he carried his views to certain objects of interior arrangement, of a very pernicious nature. None of these designs could be cornpassed witl out the aid of the Companys arms nor could those arms be em ployed consistently with an obedience to the Companys orders. Hc was therefore advised to form a inore secret, but an equally powerful, interest among the servants of that Company, and among others both at home and abroad. By engaging then1 in his interests, the use of tllc Companys power inigllt be obtained witllout their ostensible autllority tlic power iniglit cvcil bc cinployed ill dcfiailct of tlic atitlioi. ity, if tIlc ca. sc sllould requii-c, as ill tl utll it olrtcil did require, a p1-0cccdi1ig of that degree of boldricss. Tllc Colnya ly had put liim into posscssio l of scvcrnl grcat cities aiid magilificcllt mstlcs...

ISBN-13: 9781408621745
ISBN-10: 1408621746
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 584
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