The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
"At your Excellency's request, I sent Sudder ul Huk Khan to take on him
the administration of the affairs of the Adawlut and Foujdarry, and
hoped by that means not only to have given satisfaction to your
Excellency, but that through his abilities and experience these affairs
would have been conducted in such manner as to have secured the peace of
the country and the happiness of the people; and it is with the greatest
concern I learn that this measure is so far from being attended with the
expected advantages, that the affairs both of the Foujdarry and Adawlut
are in the greatest confusion imaginable, and daily robberies and
murders are perpetrated throughout the country. This is evidently owing
to the want of a proper authority in the person appointed to superintend
them. I therefore addressed your Excellency on the importance and
delicacy of the affairs in question, and of the necessity of lodging
full power in the hands of the person chosen to administer them. In
reply to which your Excellency expressed sentiments coincident with
mine. Notwithstanding which, your dependants and people, actuated by
selfish and avaricious views, have by their interference so impeded the
business as to throw the whole country into a state of confusion, from
which nothing can retrieve it but an unlimited power lodged in the hands
of the superintendent. I therefore request that your Excellency will
give the strictest injunctions to all your dependants not to interfere
in any manner with any matter relative to the affairs of the Adawlut and
Foujdarry, and that you will yourself relinquish all interference
therein, and leave them entirely to the management of Sudder ul Huk
Khan. This is absolutely necessary to restore the country to a state of
tranquillity."
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