Original Papers Relative to the Disturbances in Bengal: Containing Every Material Transaction from 1759 to 1764, Band 1J. Newbery, 1765 |
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Seite 199 - They forcibly take away the goods and commodities of the reiats, merchants, &c. for a fourth part of their value ; and by ways of violence and oppressions, they oblige the reiats, &c. to give five rupees for goods which are worth but one rupee...
Seite 189 - I am sure their frequency can bode no good to the Nabob's revenues, the quiet of the country, or the honour of our nation, but evidently tends to lessen each of them.
Seite 45 - Checon, whofe advice, we were fure, would be contrary to the welfare of the country in general, and that of the Company in particular. We determined, therefore, to act immediately upon the Nabob's fears. There could not be a better...
Seite 47 - ftruck up in his name ; provided he would agree to take the whole " charge of government upon him, to difcharge all the arrears due to. " the troops, to pay the ufual revenues to the King, to fave his life and " honour, and give him an allowance fufficient for his maintenance. All " thefe conditions being agreed to, Coffim Ally Cawn was proclaimed, " and the old Nabob came out to the Colonel, declaring, that he de
Seite 14 - Khan, .the young Nabob refufed to lead or detach his horfe to the Major's afliftance, by which a general action might have been brought on ; but on the contrary, kept himfelf encamped above a mile in the Major's rear, as if his intentions were to leave our troops, without horfe, a facrifice to the enemy. On the near approach of the Major to Patna...
Seite 65 - Befides this inteftine danger, to which the government was expofed, two armies were in the field, and waiting only the fair weather to advance ; the Shahzada towards Patna, and the Beerboom Rajah towards Moormedabad the capital.
Seite 39 - Shahzada, and raising supplies of money, and the concluding both these points, shall be weighed in the scale of reason, and whatever is judged expedient shall be put in execution ; and it shall be so contrived by the joint councils, that he be removed from this country, nor suffered to get any footing in it. Whether there be peace with the Shahzada or not, our agreement with Mir Mahomed Kasim Khan Bahadur, we will (by the grace of God) inviolably observe, as long as the English Company's factories...
Seite 46 - Cawn, with" out the leaft alarm, and marched into the courtyard of the palace " juft at the proper inftant. The gates of the inner court being " fhut, the Colonel formed his men without, and fent my letter to the €' Nabob, who was at firft in a great rage, and long threatened he would '« make what refiftance he could, and take his fate. The Colonel for« « bore all hoftilities, and feveral meflages pafled between him and the
Seite 64 - managed fo, as to engage him cont1nually in idle or vicious amufe" ments, keeping him by that means in utter ignorance of his affairs, «« and in a ftate of indifference as to their fuccefs. No money came to " his treafury, at the fame time nothing was paid to his army, infomuch " that his troops mutinied, and furrounded his palace in a tumultuous " manner, threatening to take away his life ; which they certainly would " have done, had not his fon.in-law, the prefent Coffim Aly Khan, be" come anfwerable,...
Seite 3 - Mussulmans, shall be left to the Admiral, and Colonel Clive . . . and the rest of the Council, to be disposed of by them to whom they think proper.