Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, 第 2 卷J. Murray, 1859 |
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Abercromby affairs afterwards Allies appear appointed April army artillery attack Bangalore Bart battalions Bengal Calcutta Camp Captain Carnatic Castlereagh cavalry Colonel command Company Company's conduct consequence consider considerable CORNWALLIS TO MAJOR-GENERAL corps Court of Directors DEAR LORD DEAR ROSS despatch Dublin Castle DUKE OF PORTLAND Duke of York duty EARL CORNWALLIS endeavour enemy enemy's England European favour Fort St French give Government Governor-General HENRY DUNDAS Highness's Hollond honour hope Hurry Punt India Ireland July June land letter Lieut.-Colonel Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lordship Madras Majesty's MAJOR-GENERAL ROSS Maratta March MARQUIS CORNWALLIS measure Medows ment military Minister Nabob native Nizam officers opinion Parliament peace person Peshwa Pitt possession present proposed Rajah received regiments render respect revenue sent Sept Seringapatam settlement Sir John Shore tion Tippoo Travancore treaty troops Vakeels wish zemindars
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第 325 頁 - Board, that it is indispensably necessary for the public service, that the Directors of the Bank of England should forbear issuing any cash in payment until the sense of Parliament can be taken on that subject...
第 357 頁 - The accounts that you see of the numbers of the enemy destroyed in every action are, I conclude, greatly exaggerated. From my own knowledge of military affairs, I am sure that a very small proportion of them only could be killed in battle; and I am much afraid that any man in a brown coat who is found within several miles of the field of action is butchered without discrimination.
第 371 頁 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tend to encourage this system of blood, and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc., etc., and if a priest has been put to death the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.
第 220 頁 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
第 155 頁 - We have at length concluded our Indian war handsomely, and I think as advantageously as any reasonable person could expect. We have effectually crippled our enemy without making our friends too formidable. Indeed I am well convinced that the impression they have received of the power and superiority of our arms will greatly overbalance any confidence with which their territorial acquisitions can possibly inspire them.
第 360 頁 - The principal persons of this country and the members of both houses of parliament, are in general averse to all acts of clemency...
第 418 頁 - I certainly wish that England would now make a union with the Irish nation instead of making it with a party in Ireland...
第 477 頁 - A landholder, who is secured in the quiet enjoyment of a profitable estate, can have no motive for wishing for a change. On the contrary, if the rents of his lands are raised in proportion to their improvement, — if he is liable to be dispossessed, should he refuse to pay the increase required of him, — or if threatened with imprisonment or confiscation of his property, on account of balance due to Government upon an assessment which his lands were unequal to pay, he will readily listen to any...
第 360 頁 - Ireland on the principles of France, which was originally formed, and by wonderful assiduity brought nearly to maturity, by men who had no thought of religion but to destroy it, and who knew how to turn the passions and prejudices of the different sects to the advancement of their horrible plot for the introduction of that most dreadful of all evils, a Jacobin revolution.
第 360 頁 - ... and perhaps are too much heated to see the ultimate effects which their violence must produce, would pursue measures that could only terminate in the extirpation of the greater number of the inhabitants, and in the utter destruction of the country. The words Papists and Priests are for ever in their mouths, and by their unaccountable policy they would drive four-fifths of the community into irreconcilable rebellion...