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Search - Observations On The Principles And Tendency Of The East India Bills Proposed By The Right Honourable Charles James Fox, And The Right Honourable William ... Short Sketches Of Their Political Characters

Observations On The Principles And Tendency Of The East India Bills Proposed By The Right Honourable Charles James Fox And The Right Honourable William Short Sketches Of Their Political Characters
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O B S E R V A T I O S OK T H E PRINCIPLES AND TEUTDENCSr E A S T I N D I A B I L L S P R O P O S E D BY The Right I-1onourabe CI-IARLES j.3 hTES FOX, A N D The Right Iinourable W ILLIrl hl IITT, Short Sketches ef their Poitical Ch3raQers.. Gimul Tris virtutibtus, Gmul vitiis aliorum in iphm gloriam prxccps sgebatur. TACIT. DE VIT. AGRICOLB. Prin... more »ed for 3. STOCKDALE, oppofite Euriinzton- Houle, Piccdciiliy. 17S4- -- OBSERVATIONS,- tHOUGH I am not a Member of Parliament, yet as an Englifiman, enjoying the bleirrogs of the Conititutioo, 1 am efferltially interefied in every rniure which can either direaly, or collaterally affee its ftability, injure ite perfeion, or contaminate its - purity uninfluenced by prejudice to party, or partiality to men, , my attention has been ierioufly turned to the confideration of the different means, which have been propofed for the attain- L ment of that univerfally-acknowledged neceffary objee, A better gooernmmt and ma- A 2 tzrrgemen f - nagexeat of otr concerns in the E- IzAeg. I hall make no apology for offering to the public the Centiments and opinion of an undiilinguiflled individual of the nation, upon a fubjeA which has been CO ably dii- cuffkd, and CO long contelted by the greatelt men, and moit difiinguithed potitical cha- raers of this political country. The io- hif fir of articular iyfiems, and the pro- fefied prerirterminations of party combina- tion, have cramped the abilities, dilordered the judgnient, and leffrned the weight of the emincoi perhns who have exerted them- felves on either fide of the quefiion. As an unprejudiced man. concerned only for the fifety and exiilence of a Confiitution, from wllok prof2erity I derive happiners, and in whok deitruaion my deareft interefts muit be involved I feel it my duty to fubmit the refult OF mrr obkrvation and reflettions to the confideration and judgment of my fel- low iubjeas. The itate of the India Company, from great acquili tion of property, within a thort period, has involucd the intereh of the State State fo much with thofe of the Company, as to make the politics and rehurces of the one in a great rneafure dependent upon the adminifiration of the other the immenfe field opened for the operations of war and revenue in the Eatl, have prefented temptations to the ambition and avarice of the Cotnpenys chief iervants abroad, too great in the wbrds of Lord Clive for fleffx and blood to refifi imnes of devafiation and extortion, equal to thoie of a Roman Pro-Conrul, in the moR depraved periods of that republic, have been for a feries of years exhibited in that country by the fervants of the Company who, with very few, and even thofe qualified exceptions, have bee13 folely intent upon ihc gratification of their paRions. and the acculnulation of wealth, whilit the inrerelts of the Company, and the Public, have been neglciled, or facrificed in the puriuit of rhofie objeas, at the fame time that the charatler of the nation has been difgraced, and its name rendered odious by the nlrans employed to attain them.-The commercial intrrefi of the Company languiflling its capital depreciated and its adminiftrat ion i i adminifiration become a icene of jobbing, and intrigLe, inlfead of trade and indufiry 4 were circumitances which early alarmed the Public excited the atttention of the Legiflature, and called fo its interference...

ISBN-13: 9781408610022
ISBN-10: 1408610027
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 56
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Publisher: Ditzion Press
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