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

PART IX
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Now comes the Company at home, which, on hearing this news, was all inflamed.

The Directors were on fire.

They were shocked at it, and particularly at this donation to the army and navy.

They resolved they would give it no countenance and support.

In the mean time the gentlemen did not trouble their heads upon that subject, but meant to exact and get their 500,000_l._ as they could.
Here was a third revolution, bought at this amazing sum, and this poor, miserable prince first dragged from Moorshedabad to Calcutta, then dragged back from Calcutta to Moorshedabad, the sport of fortune and the plaything of avarice.


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