The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham V1 (1913)
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The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham V1 (1913)

The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham V1 (1913)


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... as a comet in the stormy sky of politics, but in those few months he justified Chatham's forebodings and was able to undo all his work in two great branches of government--America and the East Indies. 1 Aff. Etr. Angl. Cor. Pol. 471, f. 420. See above, p. 223. 'India, ' wrote Chatham in 1778, 'teems with iniquities so rank as to smell to earth and heaven. The reformation of them, if pursued in a pure spirit of justioe, might exalt the nation and endear the English name through the world.' In the early days of his ministry he told Grafton India was the greatest of all subjects, according to his sense of great; and when he returned to Bath at Christmas 'this transcendent object' fixed his thoughts and possessed his heart. In Governor Pitt's time, when the East India Company had only a few trading settlements in India, grave abuses resulted from the absence of control over their agents and officials. The Treaty of Paris had made the Company the dominant power in India; but it gave them no greater control over their own agents. Without European competitors these Company servants could trade on any terms they chose, and, exempt from customs themselves, undersold the natives, from whom they levied heavy customs duties. In trade disputes with native subjects they provided their own iniquitous form of justice, but proved themselves utterly incompetent to deal with powerful native princes. The misgovernment in Bengal had become so scandalous by 1764 that Lord Clive was once more sent out with plenary powers to redress abuses. He improved the pay of officials and forbade them to engage in private trade, and he quelled a mutinous spirit in the Company's troops. But these reforms were more than counterbalanced by the fresh inducement to...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781164410874
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 790 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1164410873
  • Publisher Date: 10 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 229 mm


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