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Page 30
... Cheit Sing has so long been a wanderer , while the man who drove him from his dominions is still unpunished . We are sorry that Nobkissen has been cheated of his money for fourteen years , without obtaining redress . These are our ...
... Cheit Sing has so long been a wanderer , while the man who drove him from his dominions is still unpunished . We are sorry that Nobkissen has been cheated of his money for fourteen years , without obtaining redress . These are our ...
Page 43
... Cheit Sing independent , because in India dependence included a thousand evils , many of which I enumerated at that time , and they are entered in the ninth clause of the first section of this charge . I knew the powers with which an ...
... Cheit Sing independent , because in India dependence included a thousand evils , many of which I enumerated at that time , and they are entered in the ninth clause of the first section of this charge . I knew the powers with which an ...
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... Cheit Sing was fined by him , not only upon every war , but upon every pretence of war . This is the account he gives of his power and of the people subject to the British government in India . We de- ny , that the act of parliament ...
... Cheit Sing was fined by him , not only upon every war , but upon every pretence of war . This is the account he gives of his power and of the people subject to the British government in India . We de- ny , that the act of parliament ...
Page 45
... Cheit Sing from the con- sequences of this dependence , by making him independent , and not in any manner subjecting him to our government . The moment he came into a state of dependence upon the British government , all these evils ...
... Cheit Sing from the con- sequences of this dependence , by making him independent , and not in any manner subjecting him to our government . The moment he came into a state of dependence upon the British government , all these evils ...
Page 74
... Cheit Sing . This we positively deny . Whatever power the supreme sovereign of the empire had , we deny that it was delegated to Sujah Dowlah . He never was in possession of it . He was a vizier of the empire ; he had a grant of certain ...
... Cheit Sing . This we positively deny . Whatever power the supreme sovereign of the empire had , we deny that it was delegated to Sujah Dowlah . He never was in possession of it . He was a vizier of the empire ; he had a grant of certain ...
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