Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 22.3.4

22.3.4

This said, he got up, and taking all the Members with him, he went to Mir-djaafer-qhan's, and offered him the Sovereignty of Bengal, and the services of the English forces. The Navvab, after some conversation on the subject, consented to resume the Sovereignty, but it was under several conditions; and these with several respective stipulations were set to writing, and confirmed by oaths on both sides. A few days after, the English army having made all its preparatives, came out of Calcutta, and marched against Mir-cassem-qhan, whose fortune, from that moment, seemed to verge to its decline, notwithstanding the considerable advantage he had gained over Mr. Ellis. This unfortunate man was now sent to Monghyr, with all his followers, and all the artillery, arms, and effects that had been taken, either in the factory, or in camp, or at Backy-pur, and the Navvab made him over to Ferhad-aaly's care, but took the soldiers and other people under his own management, after having confined them in a place adjoining his own palace. As to the other English seized all over the country, and whom he had ordered to be put to the sword everywhere, the order was not literally executed; for numbers of them were spared, and their fate remained in suspense, until the Navvab's people finding that the English army was acquiring a superiority, dismissed every one of them underhand;