Memorials of Indian Government: Being a Selection from the Papers of Henry St. George Tucker ...

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R. Bentley, 1853 - India - 507 pages
 

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Page 305 - The Governor-General cannot forgive a treacherous attack upon a representative of the British Government, nor can he forgive hostile aggression prepared by those who were in the act of signing a treaty. It will be the first object of the Governor-General to use the power victory has placed in his hands, in the manner most conducive to the freedom of trade, and to the prosperity of the people of Sinde so long misgoverned.
Page 256 - Official Letters or Communications, to the Secret Committee of the said Court of Directors to be appointed as is by this Act directed, who shall thereupon, without disclosing the same, transmit the same according to the Tenor thereof, or pursuant to the Directions of the said Board, to the respective Governments and Presidencies, Officers and Servants ; and that the said Governments and Presidencies, Officers and Servants shall be bound to pay a faithful Obedience thereto, in like Manner as if such...
Page 477 - Ever since I have had the honor of being a member of this Court, I have uniformly and steadily opposed the encouragement given to the extension of the manufacture of opium; but of late years we have pushed it to the utmost height, and disproportionate prices were given for the article in Malwa.
Page 249 - India, and its allies, he will continue to prosecute with vigour the measures which have been announced, with a view to the substitution of a friendly for a hostile power in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan, and to the establishment of a permanent barrier against schemes of aggression upon .our north-west frontier.
Page 478 - Lord Wellesley, and Lord Minto, who circumscribed the produce within the narrowest limits, confining the cultivation of the poppy to two of our provinces, and actually eradicating it from districts where it had been previously cultivated. How fatal have been the consequences of a departure from this wise and humane policy. Is there any man still so blind as not to perceive that it has had a most injurious effect upon our national reputation...
Page 152 - This pernicious plant has robbed the Rajpoot of half his virtues ; and while it obscures these, it heightens his vices, giving to his natural bravery a character of insane ferocity, and to the countenance, which would otherwise beam with intelligence, an air of imbecility.
Page 342 - The many valuable privileges and immunities which have been conferred upon the natives of these provinces, evince the solicitude of the British Government to promote their welfare, and must satisfy them that the regulations which may be adopted for the internal government of the country will be calculated to preserve to them the laws of the Shaster and the Koran, in mutters to which they have been invariably applied, to protect them in the free exercise of their religion, and to afford security to...
Page 457 - It is essential to the future prosperity of the British territories in Bengal, that all Regulations which may be passed by Government, affecting in any respect the rights, persons, or property of their subjects, should be formed into a regular Code, and printed, with translations in the country languages; that the grounds on which each Regulation may be enacted should be prefixed to it; and that the Courts of Justice should be bound to regulate their decisions...
Page 55 - ... a quarter where they will find a different state of things, and where even the languages which they have acquired will not enable them to communicate with the people. " If it be proposed, by means of this extended apparatus, to carry on in Calcutta all the details of administration, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya mountains, and from the borders of China to the Indus, then, I say, the project is visionary and impracticable. The machine will be overloaded and will not move, the responsibility...

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