All these varied and successive sales shook the country to pieces.

As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of inanition by phlebotomy, while Cossim Ali was racking it above, the Company were drawing off all its nutriment below.

A dreadful, an extensive, and most chargeable war followed.

Half the northern force of India poured down like a torrent on Bengal, endangered our existence, and exhausted all our resources.

The war was the fruit of Mr.Hastings's cabals.