Riyaz al-salatin 114.2.1

114.2.1

The Nawab-Vizier with Mir Qasim now retired to Baksar (Seir pp. 751). At this time, from the English side, Dr. Fullerton used Ghulam Husain Khan, the author of the Seir, as a spy, and wrote to him to induce the Emperor to give his support to the English, and to withhold his support of the Nawab-Vizier (p. 751, Seir, Vol. II). Ghulam Husain Khan and his father Hedait Ali Khan, who held jagirs at Husainabad in Monghyr district, held a peculiar position at the time. They professed friendship both for Dr. Fullerton and the English, and also for Mir Qasim and the Nawab-Vizier. They were all things to all men, and enjoyed friendship and influence amongst both the hostile parties. They opened secret correspondence with the Emperor, and induced the latter to give his moral support to the English (p. 751, Seir, Vol. II). A conference was now held between Ghulam Husain Khan who now played the role of an English spy and between Major Carnac, Dr. Fullerton and Mir Jafar, and a reply was sent through Ghulam Hosain Khan and other spies to the Emperor. In the meantime, Shujau-d-daulah fell out with Mir Qasim (p. 752). Mir Qasim now assumed the garb of a faqir, but was shortly after induced to give it up, at the entreaties of Shujau-d-daulah who found his honour was at stake. Shortly after, Mir Qasim's French officer, Sumroo, the infamous perpetrator of the Patna massacre, mutinied against Mir Qasim, and was paid up and discharged by the latter.