[331] Wealth of Nations, bk. ii. c. 2.
[332] Lord Clive.
[333] Macaulay’s essays have been the subject of much recent adverse criticism; but, in regard to the plundering of Hindostan, nothing of consequence has been brought forward against him. All recent historical work relating to India must be taken with suspicion. The whole official influence has been turned to distorting evidence in order to make a case for the government.
[334] Lord Clive.
[335] Lord Clive.
[336] Warren Hastings.
[337] History of the Cotton Manufacture, 115.
[338] A Tour Thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain, ed. 1753, iii. 136, 137.
[339] Lives of Boulton and Watt, Smiles, 484.
[340] First Letter on a Regicide Peace.