Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
CHAPTER XX
British India--Clive and Hastings--East India Company--Its Oppressions and Extortions--Land Tax--Monopolies--Forced Labor and Purveyance--Taxes on Idolatry--Amount of Revenue Extorted--Slavery in India--Famine and Pestilence--The Courts--Rajah of Sattara--Abolition of Indian Slavery--British India Society--General Briggs--William Howitt--George Thompson as an Orator--Lord Brougham's Opinion--Mr. Thompson's Anti-Slavery Career--His Visit to India--His Defense of the Rajah--Advocates Corn-Law Repeal--Is Elected to Parliament 227