An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay: By the English East India Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the War with the Mahratta Nation |
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Page 295 - Thus *c ended the public tranfactions of Ghazi-ul** Dien, who crowded into a few years of " early youth more crimes and abilities than *' other confummate villains have done in a " long life of wickednefs and treachery. '* Though he did not poffefs the Decan, *' the fruit of his grandfather's uncommon *' crimes, he may truly may be faid to have " been the genuine heir of the parts and " treafon of that monfter of iniquity and vil