Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 24.5.1

24.5.1

This little affair being over, the travellers went on; and in the month of Moharrem, of the year 1180 of the Hedjra, a meeting took place at the appointed spot between Lord Clive, the General, the Vezir, the Agent Munnir-ed-dowlah, and the Radja Balvant-sing; and the usual compliments and discourses having been exchanged, it was settled, "That Radja Balvant henceforward would pay a yearly revenue of twenty lacs to Shudjah-ed-dowlah, his Lord, who would forgive him the errors of his past conduct, and leave him for the future in peace and tranquillity, but with a most solemn promise never to use any fraud or artifice whatever against him. Moreover it was stipulated that a breach of this article should be deemed a breach of the "articles between Shudjah-ed-dowlah and the English." As soon as these articles and conventions between the Vezir, the Emperor, and the English were signed, together with those between the Emperor and the Vezir, as well as those between the Vezir and the Radja, they were written fair, and at length witnessed by the principal English, and registered in the usual forms. After which those noble personages exchanged entertainments, and curious, and costly presents amongst themselves; and the Vezir having been entertained with a mock-battle amongst the European soldiers, who managed their guns and musquets with an amazing quickness and celerity, made them a present of some thousand rupees, and returned to his capital.