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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. CONTINUED OPPOSITION OF THE MAJORITY IN COUNCIL--DEATH OF MONSON--MR. WHELER APPOINTED GOVERNOR GENERAL--DISPUTE BETWEEN HASTINGS AND CLAVERING--DEATH OF CLAVERING--PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT OPPOSED BY THE COUNCIL--TRIAL OF FRANCIS. The opposition against the Governor General, by the majority in Council, of which Philip Francis was the head and front, had never ceased for a day; while the weakness and distraction it produced became, every moment, more and more alarming from the serious turn which matters were taking in our American colonies; from the great probability of France drawing her sword on the side of the insurgents; from the presence of a hostile fleet on the coast of Coromandel; and from intrigues by French agents in almost every native court. Hastings, like a great statesman, foresaw all that would happen, and applied all his energies to prepare for the struggle; for he was well aware that it was one which must involve a question of no less importance than this, "Whether Fiance or England should hold dominion of the East?" But he was thwarted at every step by the majority of the Council. They proceeded to condemn, and then to counteract, his newly-adopted system of revenue and finance; which, though not free from faults, was better than any that had preceded it, and far superior to that which they would have substituted in its place. As they could conciliate the Court of Directors only by raising the amount of remittances to England, they were pitiless towards the tax-paying population, CONTINUED OPPOSITION OF THE MAJORITY. 153 and the most exacting and clamorous of creditors towards those suhsidiary princes, who were in a state of utter dependence on the Company. In the act of tearing to pieces the treaties which Hastings had made ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151183323
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151183326
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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