Akhbar-i Mahabbat 1.2

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The faujdar sent a report of the matter to Nawab Ja'far Khan, and directed the Mughals and other principal inhabitants of the place to accompany it. They all complained before the Nawab, who issued orders to the faujdar, to the effect that not another brick or timber should be allowed to be raised. The faujdar, immediately on receipt of the order, prohibited all the masons and carpenters from carrying on the work, and ordered that no one should go to the factory. Thus the work remained unfinished. Mr. Chanak, with great indignation, prepared to fight; but as he had a very small force, and only one vessel was present at the time, while the Mughals, who were joined by the powerful faujdar, had assembled in great number, he saw no advantage in taking any hostile measure against them, and was obliged to weigh anchor. He had a burning glass in his ship, with which, by concentrating the sun's rays, he burnt the river face of the city as far as Chandernagore. With a view to avenge this injury, the faujdár wrote to the police station at Makhuá, with orders to stop the vessel. The thánadár accordingly, in order to prevent the passage of the vessel, prepared an iron chain, each link of which was ten sirs in weight, and having made it in length equal to the breadth of the river, kept it ready and made it firm to the wall of the fort. The chain being extended across the river, the vessel was thus intercepted; but Mr.