The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings ...Saunders and Otley, 1858 - 370 pagina's |
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afternoon Agha Meer Ameer Khan anchored animal appeared army artillery attended bank Bareilly Barrackpore battalion Benares Berhampore boats Brahmins breakfast British Government brought building Calcutta camp Captain cavalry Cawnpore chief circumstance command compliment considerable course Court cultivated Delhi dinner district divine service durbar elephant encamped European Excellency February force Ganges ghaut Gorkhas ground Gwalior hills Hindoo Holkar horse howdah India inhabitants Jumna Lady Loudoun land latter Lieutenant-Colonel Lucknow magistrate Mahratta Major Baillie ment miles Moradabad morning musnud Nagpore Native Infantry nautch girls Nawab Vizeer never night notion November nuzzur occasion October officers palace palankeen passed Peishwa persons Pindarries present Prince principal rain Rajah reached received Resident respect river Rohillas rupees Scindiah sent sepoys September Sing station stream tents territory thence Thomas Hislop tiger tion told town treaty trees troops vakeel vessels village wind
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Pagina 48 - In our treaties with them we recognise them as independent sovereigns. Then we send a resident to their courts. Instead of acting in the character of ambassador, he assumes the functions of a dictator; interferes in all their private concerns; countenances refractory subjects against them; and makes the most ostentatious exhibition of this exercise of authority.
Pagina 31 - The Hindoo appears a being nearly limited to mere animal functions, and even in them indifferent. Their proficiency and skill in the several lines of occupation to which they are restricted, are little more than the dexterity which any animal with similar conformation, but with no higher intellect than a dog, an elephant, or a monkey, might be supposed capable of attaining. It is enough to see this in order to have full conviction that such a people can at no period have been more advanced in civil...
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Pagina 4 - For Authors Publishing. Advice to Authors, Inexperienced Writers, and Possessors of Manuscripts, on the efficient publication of Books intended for General Circulation or Private Distribution. Sent Post free to Orders enclosing Twelve Stamps, addressed to Messrs. SAUNDERS, OTLEY, & Co., Publishers, Conduit Street.
Pagina 48 - ... them; and makes the most ostentatious exhibition of this exercise of authority. To secure to himself the support of our Government, he urges some interest which, under the colour thrown upon it by him, is strenuously taken up by our Council: and the Government identifies itself with the Resident not only on the single point, but on the whole tenor of his conduct.
Pagina 326 - A time not very remote will arrive when England will, on sound principles of policy, wish to relinquish the domination which she has gradually and unintentionally assumed over this country, and from which she cannot at present recede.
Pagina 197 - ... opportunities, and to make many advantageous speculations, so that he gathered extraordinary wealth. He expended some of it in erecting this house, on a plan entirely his own. The idea of it was probably taken from those castles of pastry, which used to adorn desserts in former days. The mansion consisted of three stories, gradually diminishing in the size of the square, so as to leave to the two upper stories a broad space between the apartments and the parapet which covered the wall of the...
Pagina 338 - The Governor-General's own observations in Bengal and his enlightening tour through the up-country corroborated Malcolm's testimony from Central India. 'Our people', he wrote, 'are too dry with the natives, who give us high credit for justice, but I fear they regard us in general as very...
Pagina 54 - ... to perform the two great feudatory duties of supporting our rule with all their forces, and submitting their mutual differences to our arbitration.
Pagina 294 - I wished to give a public mark of my estimation of his character. I, therefore, requested he would assume the honorary title of Lieutenant-Colonel ; and I apprized him of my intention to propose to Government that such a rank in the Irregulars should entitle the officer holding it to rank as youngest field-officer of the line, and to command accordingly all captains and subalterns. I explained that as battalions were often commanded by captains, it would be easy to compose such a corps for an irregular...