 Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 291by Edmund Burke - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 492 pages
...: • Letter from Mr. Johnson to the officer commanding the guard ; Lucknow, 28th June 1782: — " Sir, The Nabob, having determined to " inflict corporal...that they leave them always under •" your charge." f I will now trouble your Lordships with the following passages from Mr. Holt's evidence :-=— " Q.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 546 pages
...humanity of the British nation. XLIII. " Sir, " The Nabob having determined to injllcf cor" porctl punishment upon the prisoners under your " guard,...come, may have free access to the " prisoners, and be permit led to do with ther& as " they shall see proper, only taking care that they " Jeave them always... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 736 pages
...by the assistant resident to the commanding officer of the English guard, is a disgraceful proof. " Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal...permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." All the measures, however, of severity which could be devised, proved unavailing, though the women... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...and humanity of the British nation. Sir, XLIII. " The nabob having determined to inflict cor' poral punishment upon the prisoners under your ' guard,...the ' prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as 1 they shall see proper, only taking care, that ' they leave them always under your charge." XLIV.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 558 pages
...of disgrace to the honour, justice, and humanity of the British nation. XLIII.— "Sir,— The nahoh having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon...shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and he permitted to do with them at they xhall see proper, only taking care, that they leave them always... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 562 pages
...British nation. XLlil.— " Sir,— The nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon tiu prisoners under your guard, this is to desire. that...come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permiited to do with them as they shail see proper, only taking care, that they leave them ahva}s under... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - 632 pages
...letter was addressed to the officer of CHAP. xii. the guard there by Mr. Johnson, the acting resident. " The Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment...care that they leave them always under your charge." It is not clear whether the infliction of direct torture were actually intended, or whether this letter... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...on the records of Parliament this letter, written by a British resident to a British soldier : — " Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal...permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these barbaritics were perpetrated at Lucknow, the princesses were still under duresse at Fyzabad.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...on the records of Parliament this letter, written by a British resident to a British soldier:— " Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal...permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these barbarities were perpetrated at Lucknow, the princesses were still under duresse at Fyzabad.... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...vealed the transaction to the coort « rectors ; but as it has been observedprisoners under your gnard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall...permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these things were doing at Lucknow, the imprisonment of the Begums and the semi-starvation of... | |
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