soucars

The _soucars_ were at hand: that is, private English money-jobbers offered their assistance.

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The minister, not content with authorizing these transactions in a manner and to an extent unhoped for by the rapacious expectations of usury itself, loads the broken back of the Indian revenues, in favor of his worthy friends, the soucars, with an additional twenty-four per cent for being security to themselves for their own claims, for condescending to take the country in mortgage to pay to themselves the fruits of their own extortions.

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In consequence of this double game, all the territorial revenues have at one time or other been covered by those locusts, the English soucars.

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The majority of the House, unaccustomed to these transactions, will hear with astonishment that these soucars are no other than the creditors themselves.

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But what principally induces me to leave the affair of the territorial dispute between the Nabob and the Rajah to another day is this, -- that, both the parties being stripped of their all, it little signifies under which of their names the unhappy, undone people are delivered over to the merciless soucars, the allies of that right honorable gentleman and the

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

_He desired him (the witness) to speak to one of the soucars or bankers at Tanjore to accommodate him with a loan of money: that man showed him an account between him and the Rajah, from which it appeared that he charged forty-eight per cent, besides compound interest_.

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But there are soucars who will supply you on the mortgage of your territories.

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-- Being asked, Where he borrowed the money? he said, He believes principally from soucars or native bankers, and some at Madras, as he told him.

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In fine, by opening an avenue to the irruption of the Nabob of Arcot's creditors and soucars, whom every man, who did not fall in love with oppression and corruption on an experience of the calamities they produced, would have raised wall before wall and mound before mound to keep from a possibility of entrance, a more destructive enemy than Hyder

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The Nabob still kept the troops in service, and was obliged to continue, as you have seen, the whole expense to exonerate himself from which he became indebted to the soucars.

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