Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 24.14.11

24.14.11

and he often added in my presence and that of many others, these very words:—Those that had gained lacs by my service, and owe me the very bread upon which they now live, have abandoned, and deserted me in the day of need, and have left me alone; nor has any one been of any use to me in the day of trial, nor am I under the least obligation to a single one of them, save to Aaly-hibrahim-qhan, my Kybla, that benefactor of mine, who has bought and acquired every ounce of me. No father, and no brother, would have served me with so much zeal, nor done what this man has done. These were his words; nor did he speak in that strain once or twice, but in every company, and at every turn, he would be rehearsing that worthy friend's praises, and extolling his services. All this while he was in expectation, that some better prospects would open to his view; when there arrived three men at Calcutta, who had authority to act both on the part of the King, and on the part of the Company, as Directors of all the transactions of the Committee, and as enquirers into the Governor's conduct and that of Mr. Barwell's. These were General Clavering, Colonel Monson, and Mr. Francis. They were to examine what those two men had done, although those two men had been at the same time confirmed in their stations. This happened about the middle of Shaaban, in the year 1189.