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Chapter 4:
England and its dependencies, continued.
1763.
So
England was one united nation.
The landed aris-
tocracy was the sovereign, was the legislature, was the people, was the state.
The separate influence of each of the great component parts of English society may be observed in the
British dominions outside of
Great Britain.
From the wrecks of the empire of the Great Mogul, a monopolizing company of English merchants had gained dominion in the
East; with factories, subject provinces, and territorial revenues on the coast of Malabar, in the
Carnatic, and on the
Ganges.
They despised the rivalry of
France, whose East India Company was hopelessly ruined, and whose feeble factories were in a state of confessed inferiority;—and with eager zeal they pushed forward their victories, openly avowing gain as the sole end of their alliances and their trade, of their warfare and their civil rule.
In
America, the middling class, chiefly rural people, with a few from the towns of
England, had