Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.23.6

19.23.6

but as he was a man of expedients, he proposed to bring him to camp within twenty-four hours, by only ordering the Marhatta Shyö-bahat to make some excursions on his estate and Djaghiri-lands. The Emperor approved his expedient, and laid his commands on the Marhatta officer accordingly; so that the whole estate was going now to be plundered and sacked, when my father thought proper to stay Shyö-bahat's execution, by expressing his readiness to repair to the Imperial camp; and he forthwith prepared his equipage. But this intelligence no sooner came to the ears of Ram-narain, than he attempted to put an end to all intercourse between the English and me, by giving an exaggerated account of this affair to Amyatt. He said, "that Ghölam-hossein-qhan by his intercourse with the English, was enabled to give his father information of every word and every transaction in the place. That his father, although a subject of this Government, and highly beholden to it for the favour of being reinstated in the possession of his Djaghir, was preparing to repair to the Imperial camp, and to add fuel to a fire that was already consuming the land. He added, that Ghölam-hossein-qhan must be enjoined to write to his father so effectually, as to oblige him to abandon such a mischievous design." On this representation Mr. Amyatt desired me to comply with the request.