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Page 185 - Our possessions should be bounded by the provinces ; studiously maintain peace : it is the groundwork of our prosperity ; never consent to act offensively against any powers, except in defence of our own, the king's or ShujaDowla's dominions, as stipulated by treaty; and above all things be assured that a march to Delhi would be not only a vain and fruitless project, but attended with certain destruction to your army, and perhaps put a period to the very being of the Company in Bengal.
Page 21 - French garrison capitulated, and were allowed to march out with all the honours of war : the town, by the advice of Maximilian, who had an interested and evident motive for this advice, was dismantled and burned. That the destruction might be complete, without any labour to the English, the Flemings in the neighbourhood, the subjects of the emperor's...
Page 165 - I have sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. Unfortunate friends, too weak relations, devoted all their property to the success of my projects. They are now in misery and want. I have submitted to all the judiciary forms ; I have demanded, as the last of the creditors, that which is due to me. My services are treated as fables ; my demand is denounced as ridiculous ; I am treated as the vilest of mankind. I am in the most deplorable indigence ; the little property...
Page 109 - September, 1748 ; his gallant conduct in the defence of the advanced breach gave the first prognostic of that high military spirit, which was the spring of his future actions and the principal source of the decisive intrepidity and elevation of mind which were his characteristical endowments.
Page 164 - ... treat Dupleix as a man from whom nothing more could be hoped, but who, on his part, would importune them with claims. They, therefore, or rather, acting with them, the Directors of the Company, at once changed their manner towards him, and absolutely refused to take his accounts into consideration. In vain did he remonstrate. In vain did he point out that he was persecuted by creditors who were simply creditors, because, on his security, they had advanced their funds to the Government of Pondichery....
Page 175 - a fatal and decisive blow to French domination in India ; it shattered to the ground the mighty fabric which Martin, Dumas, and Dupleix had contributed to erect ; it dissipated all the hopes of Lally ; it sealed the fate of Pondichery.
Page 110 - ... of a cool temper, and a presence of mind which never left him in the greatest danger. Born a soldier, for without a military education of any sort, or much conversing with any of the profession, from his...
Page 186 - England has been much admired and often cited for having resolved the great problem of how to govern, at a distance of 4000 leagues, with some hundreds of civil functionaries and some thousands of soldiers, her immense possessions in India. If there is much that is wonderful, much that is bold and daring, much political genius in the idea, it must be admitted that the honour of having inaugurated it belongs to Dupleix, and that England, which in the present day reaps from it the profit and the glory,...
Page 110 - ... a soldier; for, without a military education of any sort, or much conversing with any of the profession, from his judgment and good sense, he led on an army like an experienced officer and a brave soldier, with a prudence that certainly warranted success.
Page 165 - Frenchmen. Even the rivals who profited by his recall place him on a pedestal scarcely, if at all, lower than the pedestals upon which stand Clive, Warren Hastings, and Wellesley. In grandness of conception, in the boundless extent of mental conception, he was their forerunner — and unconsciously perhaps on their part, their inspirer.