bribe-factor

Updated: June 27, 2025

Having, therefore, thus appointed a Council of tools in the hands of Gunga Govind Sing, at the expense of 62,000l. a year, to supersede all the English provincial authorities, having appointed them for the purpose of establishing a bribe-factor general, a general receiver and agent of bribes through all that country, Mr. Hastings is responsible for all the consequences of it.

Edmund Burke - The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)