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

PART IX
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As soon as he had done this, he began to rack and tear the provinces that were left to him, to get as much from them as should compensate him for the revenues of those great provinces he had lost; and accordingly he began a scene of extortion, horrible, nefarious, without precedent or example, upon almost all the landed interest of that country.

I mention this, because he is one of those persons whose governments Mr.Hastings, in a paper called his Defence, delivered in to the House of Commons, has produced as precedents and examples which he has thought fit to follow, and which he thought would justify him in the conduct he has pursued.

This Cossim Ali Khan, after he had acted the tyrant on the landed interest, fell upon the moneyed interest.

In that country there was a person called Juggut Seit.

There were several of the family, who were bankers to such a magnitude as was never heard of in the world.


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