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028 - Chapter 27 - Conclusion · The American Revolution A Historical Overview Vol. 3

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of History of the Rivus Progress and
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  Speaker 1: Termination of the American Revolution, Volume three by mercy Otis Warren.
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  Speaker 1: Termination of the American Revolution, Volume three by mercy Otis Warren,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven conclusion, what a perversion of just ideas?
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  Speaker 1: The true glory of man is ninity and kindness to
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  Speaker 1: his vollow mortals? Or can even military glory be enhanced
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  Speaker 1: by the triumphant porchery of mankind? But the same cruel
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  Speaker 1: apathy expressed by one of them seem to pervade most
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  Speaker 1: of the officers on this expedition. The riches and splendor
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  Speaker 1: of the peninsula, and the extermination of the inhabitants that
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  Speaker 1: they might possess their wealth, seemed to be the only
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  Speaker 1: object from honoree. General Matthews proceeded to hide a neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: the capital of Canara. It is true, by astonishing feats
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  Speaker 1: of balor, he reached the metropolis, where the wealth of
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants was immense. The place was surrounded by capitulation.
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  Speaker 1: The general, possessed of the churcher and no distribution, made
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  Speaker 1: The avarice of the officers to obtain the fullsphere of
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  Speaker 1: the plunder, raised murmur and mutiny that was not easily quieted,
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  Speaker 1: nor was it ever ascertained in whose coffees the whole
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  Speaker 1: was finally deposited. Before General Matthews returned to Bombay, he
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  Speaker 1: sent a detachment from by the neighbor to Amalpoort, under
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  Speaker 1: the command of Major Campbell. The orders were for a
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  Speaker 1: storm and no quarter. The coal mandates were received with
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  Speaker 1: alacrity and put in execution without delay. Every man in
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  Speaker 1: the place was put to the sword, except when horseman
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  Speaker 1: were escaped, out to being wounded in three different places.
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  Speaker 1: The women, unwilling to be separated from their relations or
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  Speaker 1: exposed to the brutal licentiousness of the soldiery, threw themselves
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  Speaker 1: in multitudes into the moats with which the fort was surrounded.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundred beautiful young women, pierced with the bayonet and
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  Speaker 1: expiring in each other's arms, were in this situation treated
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  Speaker 1: by the British with every kind of outrage. The avenging
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  Speaker 1: hand of justice soon overtook the barbarous butchering Matthew's, he
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  Speaker 1: fell into the hands at Tapoo Saib, after that victorious
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  Speaker 1: commander had recaptured higher Baker was loaded with chains, imprisoned,
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  Speaker 1: and soon after put to death by his orders. But
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  Speaker 1: note it has been said that the manner of his
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  Speaker 1: death was that of pouring out the gold down his throat,
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  Speaker 1: a strong expression at the ideas the natives had of
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  Speaker 1: his avarice. And a footnote for a further ta detail
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  Speaker 1: of the enormous is committed by the servants of Britain
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  Speaker 1: and the sufferance of the inhabitants of India for a
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  Speaker 1: number of years without medigation. The reader is referred to
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  Speaker 1: the history of that unfortunate country. There he will find
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  Speaker 1: a description of a great part of this garden of nature,
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  Speaker 1: whose prolific shoots have expanded over the four quarters of
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  Speaker 1: the globe, few of whose inhabitants have yet arrived through
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  Speaker 1: a perfect knowledge of the arts, the ingenuity the sciences
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  Speaker 1: contained in their science, crypt and other languages. Indeed, new
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  Speaker 1: discoveries have been recently brought to light by the investigation
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  Speaker 1: of learned and virtuous Englishmen, who, while pursuing their inquiries
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  Speaker 1: Woak to behold so fair a spot of creation based
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  Speaker 1: in the blood of its native sons, by the hands
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  Speaker 1: of a nation who boast higher degrees of civilization, without
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  Speaker 1: possessing their simplicity or vanity, and perhaps their knowledge footnote.
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  Speaker 1: Bengal has been to described as exhibiting the most charming
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  Speaker 1: and picturesque scenery, opening into extensive glades covered with the
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  Speaker 1: fine turf and interspersed with woods, filled with a variety
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  Speaker 1: of birds of beautiful colors, amongst others. Peacocks in abundance,
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the vast horizontal branches, displayed their dazzling plumes
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  Speaker 1: to the sun. The Ganges winding its mighty waters through
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  Speaker 1: the adjacent plains, adding to the prospect inexpressible grandeur, while
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  Speaker 1: the artist that is loam under the immense shade of
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  Speaker 1: the Banyan tree softened his labored by the tender strains
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  Speaker 1: of music and a footnote. But their progress in the arts,
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  Speaker 1: the histories of the first progenitors of mankind, the astronomical discoveries,
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  Speaker 1: and the knowledge of nature and its operations, must now
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  Speaker 1: lay buried with the wreck of their fortunes, and many
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  Speaker 1: of them enveloped in the rubbish of complete ruin brought
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  Speaker 1: on them by europe An avarice and ambition. But a
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  Speaker 1: correction of some abuses in India took place early in
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  Speaker 1: the administration of mister Pitt. New regulations were adopted and
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  Speaker 1: critical inquiry made into the conduct of the East India
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  Speaker 1: Company and their officers. Severally, the all the officers of
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  Speaker 1: government were removed, and men of more humanity sent forward
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  Speaker 1: in their places. Among them, Sir William Jones was appointed
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  Speaker 1: one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature.
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  Speaker 1: The character of this gentleman, who serves every acmia from
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  Speaker 1: his writings of the testimony of contemporaries. He was an
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  Speaker 1: honor to his country, a benefactor to mankind, and an
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  Speaker 1: ornament to the world. His elegant manners, profounder erudition, pure morals,
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  Speaker 1: and strict justice were conspicuous in all the transactions of
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  Speaker 1: his life. The deep researches of Sir William Jones in
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  Speaker 1: ancient Oriental history had thrown great light on the custostom's manners, habits,
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  Speaker 1: and the various religions among the Indians, both ancient and modern.
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  Speaker 1: His learned labors must undoubtedly tend to improvements in science
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  Speaker 1: and the culture of virtue and true religion, through the
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  Speaker 1: enlightened parts of the world, and perhaps to soften and
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  Speaker 1: humanize the hearts of his own countrymen in their future
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  Speaker 1: unwarrantable invasions of the inhabitants of the East. The English
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  Speaker 1: are indeed an astonishing nation, though frequently involved in hostilities
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  Speaker 1: without the world, Confounded by the immensity of their own
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  Speaker 1: national debt, accumulating almost beyond calculation, plunged in luxury and venality,
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  Speaker 1: their manners in their constitution, corrupted, Yet by their extensive commerce,
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  Speaker 1: the strength of their navy, their valor, their genius, and
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  Speaker 1: their industry, they surmount all embarrassments with the dress and facility,
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  Speaker 1: and rise superior to evils that would augur them down.
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  Speaker 1: All of any other nation on earth. No country has
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  Speaker 1: produced men more learned and liberal, a more comprehensive genius, virtue,
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  Speaker 1: and real excellence than England. Yet the contrast may as
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  Speaker 1: justly be exhibited there as in any part of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But the balance of real merit, both individual and national,
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  Speaker 1: must be left to the all pervading eye, which, with
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  Speaker 1: a single glance surveys the moral and intellectual system of creation.
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  Speaker 1: We now lead them to the rotations of time and
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  Speaker 1: the reaction of human events, to the period which shall
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  Speaker 1: be pointed by the providential government of Him to whom
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  Speaker 1: a thousand years are as one day when they also
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  Speaker 1: may be viewed a spectacle of woe by the remnant
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  Speaker 1: of nations annihilated by their rapacity, ambition, and victorious arms.
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  Speaker 1: Let us hasten to turn our eyes from the miserable Marautus.
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  Speaker 1: Desolated tribes of Industan, and the naked sareronautic, divested of
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  Speaker 1: everything that had breathed by the ravages of a relentless foe.
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  Speaker 1: A dead and dreary silence reigns over an extent of
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  Speaker 1: five or six hundred miles of these once full peopled plains.
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  Speaker 1: Nor will we dwell longer in any the proud projects
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  Speaker 1: of conquest in the cabinet of Great Britain, either in
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  Speaker 1: the East or the West. But carry the mind forward
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  Speaker 1: and indulge a pleasing anticipation of peace and independence to
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. End of Section twenty eight