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... Conduct with regard to the Affairs of Ireland 445 A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich ib . An Enquiry into , and Remarks upon the Conduct of Lieut . Gen. Burgoyne Remarks on Gen. Burgoyne's State of the Expedition from ...
... Conduct with regard to the Affairs of Ireland 445 A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich ib . An Enquiry into , and Remarks upon the Conduct of Lieut . Gen. Burgoyne Remarks on Gen. Burgoyne's State of the Expedition from ...
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... conduct in adverfity was as mean , abject , and fubmiffive , as their infolence and haughtiness had been intolerable in profperity : that when the mifmanagements of the Company forced , in a man- ner , their affairs into Parliamentary ...
... conduct in adverfity was as mean , abject , and fubmiffive , as their infolence and haughtiness had been intolerable in profperity : that when the mifmanagements of the Company forced , in a man- ner , their affairs into Parliamentary ...
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... conduct during the whole war was not only uniformly deceptious , but that he privately correfponded with the enemy , entertained their agent in his capital , ftopt provisions from being fent to the English army , and difconcerted their ...
... conduct during the whole war was not only uniformly deceptious , but that he privately correfponded with the enemy , entertained their agent in his capital , ftopt provisions from being fent to the English army , and difconcerted their ...
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... conduct , that , on the 17th of March 1769 , they fent pofitive orders to the Prefidency , to affift the Nabob in -bringing to a fevere account his undutiful vaffal : that the Court plainly were of opinion , that the treaty of 1762 ...
... conduct , that , on the 17th of March 1769 , they fent pofitive orders to the Prefidency , to affift the Nabob in -bringing to a fevere account his undutiful vaffal : that the Court plainly were of opinion , that the treaty of 1762 ...
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... conduct of the Rajah appeared to the Prefiden- cy to merit the ultimate chastisement of war , it has been shewn , that the Nabob preferred negotiation to hoftility : that , when the decifion of arms became neceffary , he vetted his ...
... conduct of the Rajah appeared to the Prefiden- cy to merit the ultimate chastisement of war , it has been shewn , that the Nabob preferred negotiation to hoftility : that , when the decifion of arms became neceffary , he vetted his ...
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