Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.6.2

12.6.2

So many advantages, and so much lustre in a single man, was that the cankered heart of the Gentoo could not bear, and he made use of his ascendant over his master's mind, to thwart my father's views of illustration and fame, and to bring him under the lash of some well-managed mortification. As he had his master's ear at command, he gave him to understand "That Seyd-hedai'et-aaly-qhan was so much respected by all the Zemindars of that country, and likewise so much considered by his master, that these people had very naturally turned the eye of hope towards that nobleman; and that the latter having from a length of time connections with them, he would to all appearance become a powerful intercessor in their behalf, so soon as he should see them in some danger; in which case His Highness would find that, after spending a deal of money, and undergoing much bodily labour, in a campaign likely to be very fatiguing, he would be obliged to grant those people a full pardon, and to reinstate them in their possessions, without reaping any other fruit from all his toiling but a few concessions on their part, and some barren submissions.