But all these attempts to disguise his numerous acts of peculation proved unavailing; and he was arrested in 1452, and brought to trial on several charges.
From a very humble origin he rose to the highest honours of the state, and amassed enormous wealth, by peculation and the plunder of the country which he should have served.
Never was there such wasteful, ruinous expenditure coupled with peculation and actual robbery at the same time.
Even in the matter of the funds collected for the famine-stricken people of 1878, it is whispered that peculation has been rife.
Peculation itself is hinted at; nay, Lafayette and others go so far as to speak it out, with attempts at proof.
And now when this second more tangible grievance has articulated itself universally in the mind of the common man: Peculation of his Pay!
The Duchess afterwards attempted to defend herself against the charge of peculation as the keeper of the privy purse; but no one believed her.
There was the most shameless peculation in the kitchen, and money given in charity was appropriated by the servants, who all combined to cheat her.
The abuses were greater in some branches of the service than in others, but peculation prevailed to a greater or less extent almost everywhere.
The opportunities which this grant afforded for peculationand plunder were too tempting to be resisted.
By speaking thus and exposing the peculation which was being practised, he closed the mouths of all those who were so loudly commending him as an honest man, but gained the applause of all true and honourable men.
He conducted the war ill, and on his return he was prosecuted for peculation and convicted.
Peculation in Russia, indeed, assumed enormous proportions, but this was a crime towards which Peter did not manifest his usual severity.
The dark side was one of extortion and robbery, in which the favorite of the czar out-did in peculation all the other officials of the realm.
I question if there is much more peculation on the part of the employees of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé to-day than there is on the part of the servants of the Great Western of England or any other British company.
For weeks and weeks, they were almost continually coming in and even the very first reports bear suspicious signs of the exaggeration that became really notorious as graft and peculation entered more and more into the reckoning.
Peculation appeared on every hand, white sharpers abounded, and Indians, relatively affluent, subsisted at government expense.
Smith knew and others might have known that the situation had been largely created by envy, hatred, and malice, by corruption in high places, by peculation in low, by desertions in white regiments and by defection in Indian.
Sidenote: Poverty and extravagance] Peculation and personal lavishness were as remarkable as the public waste.
He was indicted for peculation shortly after the death of Keen Lung, and, without friends, he succumbed to the attack of his many enemies incited to attack him by the greed of Kiaking.
This method afforded ample scope for peculation both from the government and the people.
This notorious group of men, with whom were others less conspicuous, were then in the very height of their successful efforts to "get rich quick," in the system of peculation and robbery established by Bigot.
Still it had been utterly impossible for ministers to carry on such a ruinous system of peculation and crime, if they had not contrived the corruption of the people's representatives.
At present this is far from being the case, many men of notoriously bad character being employed, and these are driven to peculation and theft for the means of supporting life.
It is at such times that peculation stalks abroad at noon day with hideous form and unblushing impudence.
They will not seek office but we should be careful to seek them and cleanse the temple of our Liberty from political peculation and venality.
Speculation andpeculation had rolled their dark waves over the public business of the nation--to do justice to all who presented claims was a problematical matter.
He took a bold stand against the corruptions of the proprietary government and strongly advocated an alteration of the charter that peculation might be diminished and abuses corrected.
The same unprincipled peculation was practised by other municipal or state officers.
In the late proceedings of the Revenue Board it will appear that there is no species of peculation from which the Honorable Governor-General has thought it reasonable to abstain.
I need not inform your Lordships, that Mr. Hastings had before this time been charged with bribery and peculation by General Clavering, Colonel Monson, and Mr. Francis.
He goes the full length of that position, and turns his private peculation into a public good.
He could not forget the glory of which Pompey had frustrated him; but his dread of a prosecution for peculation was so great, that he fell at Caesar's feet, and forswore all opposition.
He had, for example, the same year accused ofpeculation C.
Coke, unlike Bacon, had amassed great wealth during his official life, and it was understood that these charges of peculation and bribery had been got up at the suggestion of Bacon and Coke's own wife, Lady Hatton.
