The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (Of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (Of 12)
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No such plan was transmitted; but in the year 1781, Mr. Hastings havingobtained a majority in the Council, he again changed the whole system, both of collection of the revenue and of the executive administration ofcivil and criminal justice. And who were the persons substituted in theplace of those whom he removed? Names, my Lords, with which you arealready but too well acquainted. At their head stands Munny Begum; thencomes his own domestic, and private bribe-agent, Gunga Govind Sing; thenhis ...banian, Cantoo Baboo; then that instrument of all evil, Debi Sing;then the whole tribe of his dependants, white and black, whom he madefarmers of the revenue, with Colonel Hannay at their head; and, lastly, his confidential Residents, secret agents, and private secretaries, Mr. Middleton, Major Palmer, &c. , &c. Can your Lordships doubt, for a singleinstant, of the real spirit of these proceedings? Can you doubt of thewhole design having originated and ended in corruption and peculation?
We have fully stated to you, from the authority of these partiesthemselves, the effects and consequences of these proceedings, --namely, the dilapidation of the revenues, and the ruin and desolation of theprovinces.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
No such plan was transmitted; but in the year 1781, Mr. Hastings havingobtained a majority in the Council, he again changed the whole system, both of collection of the revenue and of the executive administration ofcivil and criminal justice. And who were the persons substituted in theplace of those whom he removed? Names, my Lords, with which you arealready but too well acquainted. At their head stands Munny Begum; thencomes his own domestic, and private bribe-agent, Gunga Govind Sing; thenhis ...banian, Cantoo Baboo; then that instrument of all evil, Debi Sing;then the whole tribe of his dependants, white and black, whom he madefarmers of the revenue, with Colonel Hannay at their head; and, lastly, his confidential Residents, secret agents, and private secretaries, Mr. Middleton, Major Palmer, &c. , &c. Can your Lordships doubt, for a singleinstant, of the real spirit of these proceedings? Can you doubt of thewhole design having originated and ended in corruption and peculation?
We have fully stated to you, from the authority of these partiesthemselves, the effects and consequences of these proceedings, --namely, the dilapidation of the revenues, and the ruin and desolation of theprovinces.
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