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The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12)

PART IX
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The moment Mr.Holwell is raised to be a Secretary of State, the revolution is accomplished.

By it Cossim Ali Khan is to have the lieutenancy at present, and the succession.
Everything is put into his hands, and he is to make for it large concessions, which you will hear of afterwards, to the Company.

Cossim Ali Khan proposed to Mr.Holwell, what would have been no bad supplement to the flash of lightning, the murder of the Nabob; but Mr.Holwell was a man of too much honor and conscience to suffer that.

He instantly flew out at it, and declared the whole business should stop, unless the affair of the murder was given up.

Accordingly things were so settled.
But if he gave the Nabob over to an intended murderer, and delivered his person, treasure, and everything into his hands, Cossim Ali Khan might have had no great reason to complain of being left to the execution of his own projects in his own way.


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