Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.4.2

18.4.2

Accordingly, the Radjah's officers went, measured the timber, set their mark upon it, and for a length of time left it there, without further notice. The poor man sent the Radja word, requesting him either to take up the timber and pay for it according to the terms agreed upon, or to release it intirely, that any other might purchase it. The Radja, proud of his power and superior rank, made a very strange and very improper answer; and it was in these terms: "I fear neither the West nor the East, as you seem to imagine; nor have I bought your timber, but out of compassion; and you had better think so yourself." The Sheh confounded at the message, answered in a note, that he had not been able to understand His Excellency's message, "but as to " what you have been pleased " added he, " to write of your " having no fears." Verses: " There is a certain being called God, which, you know, " Can assuage even the billows of a stormy sea." After this affair, poverty took the upper hand of that worthy man. Luckily that a little time after, Aaly-djah-mir-cassem-qhan having seated himself upon the Mesned of the sovereignty of Bengal, and established himself fully in the possession of the three provinces of Bengal, Bahar and Oressa, he was pleased to call me from Radja Ram-narain's service into his own, as we shall mention subsequently, and to put it in my power to procure him from that Prince a noble pension, which enabled him to repay his creditors.