A Letter to the Directors of the Honorable East India Company in Consequence of
A Letter to the Directors of the Honorable East India Company in Consequence of
S Ferrand Samuel Ferrand Waddington
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" Mr. Burke was alfo moft vehement for this mcafure. Pofterity will know, however, that this orator's zeal, in Warren Haftings's matters, arofc from flights to his relative in India. Lord John CavendiOi declared, *' that the territorial acquifitions, of the Company, were but a fruitful fource of grievance, " *' let it confine itfelf to the Charter of Merchants. 1 ' Governor John- llonc manfully oppofed the meafure ; *' France had fent out formidable fquadrons; I-Vancc had an eye to India; and w...ould vou recall the Governor-General when lie has 4 juft concluded peace with the Mahrattas, and has fupplied the expcnfes of the late war with wonderful ingenuity ?" Mr. Dempftcr, . M th_- lame fide, laid, that, to fuperfede Mr. Haflings. ( 17 ) j failings, would be like recalling Governor Elliot, when hot balls were flying at Gi- braltar. The whole bufinefs ended here, the Bill wax ! r >Jl. But, in November of that year, Mr. Secretary Fox, true to the latent prin- ciple, brought forward his " celebrated'* Bill for the purpofe of *' relieving" the company from the burden of directing their own 0ffain 9 by an inveftment of their powers in feven ccmmiflioners, (of which, I think, Earl Fitzwilliam is now only living, ) " for the benefit of the proprietors and of the public.
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