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62 ‘not a necessity’: Hanes and Sanello, The Opium Wars, p. 20.
63 ‘the safest and most’: Both quoted in Hyam, Britain’s Imperial Century, p. 28.
64 ‘a war more unjust’: Hanes and Sanello, The Opium Wars, p. 79.
65 ‘Multitudes of our’: Ibid., p. 153.
65 ‘which could never’: The Times, 3 December 1842.
66 ‘We have as much’: Quoted in Kiernan, British Diplomacy in China, p. 251.
66 ‘not an amiable’: Hochschild, Bury the Chains, p. 85.
67 ‘to the next insurrection’: Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. IV, p. 54.
67 ‘it was time’: Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, vol. 1, p. 210.
67 ‘There was no town’: Quoted in Hochschild, Bury the Chains, p. 193.
67 ‘either fanatics or’: Quoted in Fryer, Staying Power, p. 101.
67 ‘the blood-sweetened beverage’: ‘Poems Concerning the Slave Trade’, Sonnet III, Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, vol. I, p. 66.
67 ‘as guilty of’: The Star, Monday, 26 December 1791, quoted in Murphy, Cox’s Fragmenta, p. 36.
68 ‘The people of’: Romilly, The Speeches of Sir Samuel Romilly in the House of Commons, vol. I, p. 9.
68 ‘how much more’: Ibid., pp. 30–31.
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70 ‘a British subject’: Hansard, 3rd series, vol. 112, col. 44, 25 June 1850.
71 ‘There is so much’: Rosamund Lawrence, quoted in MacMillan, Women of the Raj, pp. 18–19.
72 ‘Let this be’: Letter from Sir Thomas Roe to the East India Company, 24 November 1616, in Foster, ed., The Embassy of Sir Thomas, quoted in Judd, The Lion and the Tiger, p. 15.
72 ‘the unparalleled jewel’: Letter to Sir Stephen Evance, John Dolben and Robert Pitt, printed in Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of J.B. Fortescue, preserved at Dropmore, vol. I, p. 32.
75 Nothing in history: Macaulay, ‘Lord Clive’, in Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III, p. 100.
75 ‘twenty-three ghastly figures’: Ibid.
75 ‘the lounging place’: Calcutta Old and New, quoted in Mukherjee, ‘Myth of Empire – The story about the Black Hole of Calcutta refuses to die’.
76 ‘proclaimed to the heavens’: Rabindranath Tagore, ‘On the monument to the victims of the Black Hole massacre’, quoted in Macfarlane, The Black Hole, or the Makings of a Legend, p. 207.
77 ‘both in their garb’: Quoted in Harvey, Clive, p. 92.
77 ‘five hundred [enemy]’: Quoted in ibid., p. 219.
77 ‘disguised in a’: Jasanoff, Edge of Empire, p. 30.
78 ‘In the field’: Macaulay, Macaulay’s Essays on Clive and Hastings, p. 77.
79 ‘the living were’: Hunter, The Annals of Rural Bengal, vol. I, p. 26.
79 ‘We have had’: Quoted in Harvey, Clive, p. 357.
79 ‘an opulent city’: Speech made to a select committee of the House of Commons, March 1773, quoted in Macaulay, ‘Lord Clive’, reprinted in Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, p. 368.
80 ‘Lord Clive is himself’: Paine, The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine, vol. II, p. 38.
81 ‘I have saved’: Quoted in Gardner, The East India Company, p. 123.
81 ‘Were we to be’: Burke, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, vol. V, pp. 402–3.
82 ‘there were gathered’: Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘Warren Hastings’, reprinted in Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, p. 455.
82 ‘brought before you’: Edmund Burke, quoted in Dirks, The Scandal of Empire, p. 89.
83 ‘The wives of’: Quoted in ibid., pp. 110–11.
83 ‘the most culpable’: Bryan, The World’s Famous Orations, vol. VI, p. 50, n. 1.
83 ‘the condemnation we’: ‘At the Trial of William Hastings’, 1788, printed in Sheridan, The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, p. 119.
84 ‘our fellow subjects’: Quoted in Dirks, The Scandal of Empire, p. 302.
85 ‘a detestable expedient’: Hansard, 1st series, vol. 26, col. 856, 22 June 1813.
85 ‘Our religion is’: Ibid., cols. 864–5.
85 ‘infused into oriental’: Quoted in Rosselli, Lord William Bentinck, p. 19.
86 ‘It is your custom’: Lieven, Pakistan, p. 359.
89 ‘I was a good’: Quoted in Wagner, The Great Fear of 1857, p. 120.
90 ‘Surely we are’: Letter