Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 22.1.7

22.1.7

and even this law having proved far from adequate to the evil, the Company's servants, or their dependants, having it in their power to evade its operations in a thousand obvious ways, the hatchet at last was brought forth, and put to the root of the tree. Their servants were strictly forbidden from trading, directly or indirectly, in the inland country, in any article whatever; and strict injunctions were given to the Governors in India, for preventing their being concerned as farmers or lessees of any duty, town, village, or district, whatever; nor have those two laws, severe as they are, produced a complete effect, although they have gone far that way. counsellors of their party, now the majority of Calcutta, the Council would not fail to declare war against that Prince, and to make every effort to drive him out of his dominions; he on his side prepared himself underhand for the event; and being certain of the day on which Mr. Amyatt had departed from Monghyr, he, by calculating in how many days more he might be out of the reach of the Navvab's forces, rightly concluded that he must be now arrived in Calcutta; and he resolved on such a conclusion, to attack Mir-mehdi-qhan, and to surprise the city of Azim-abad, where that officer commanded.