Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 22.3.3

22.3.3

Is it not then proper and prudent, added the Governor, to endeavour to live upon some terms with that merciless sanguinary man, until the prisoners can be recovered out of his hands? After which, it would be time to proceed on projects of war and revenge." This reasonable speech made no effect; and, as the Counsellors greatly suspected their Governor, and thought themselves so certain of his being Mir-cassem's protector, that they ascribed to artifice and to design the temporising party he had just now proposed; they rose up in the utmost violence of passion, and taking the paper on which Vansittart had written his proposal, they added at the bottom of it. That were all the prisoners to a man killed by Mir-cassem, they would not for a moment recede from their proposed revenge, or ever come to terms of accommodation with him. After saying so much, they all put their names to it. The Governor having perused the paper, which proved in the sequel the main voucher that cleared his character, folded it down, and put it in his pocket. He added, that now that their party was taken, it was incumbent upon them all to go immediately to Mir-djaafer-qhan's lodgings, in order to proclaim that Prince, as enthroned in Mir-cassem's stead; after which, it would be expedient to send him up to Moorshoodabad with the English army.