Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 25.5.4

25.5.4

fall at last under the lash of outstanding ballances; and after paying into the treasury of the English as an equivalent, all the money they have before hoarded, they are now obliged to sit down with the odious character of having been the carriers and porters of exaction and tyranny. So that those glorious rulers, after ruining all the world, and burrving their own feathers, now become sensible of their losses, turn repentants; but it is only at a time when repentance cannot mend their circumstances, and when they have become already so infamous and so odious, that this distich becomes quite applicable to their case: "Have you seen what has done that jackass of a little man? "He has borne all the odium of the exaction, and another has run "away with all the profit." To return to our narrative, the Governor of Bombay gave notice of all these troubles to Governor Hushtin; and it was at a time when the disputes between the French and English, disputes which were of old standing, were revived again on account of the assistance which the former had given to the men of America. These men, who are of the same race with the English, had these two or three hundred years past settled in America, which is a New-found-land called Yengbi-Dunia, much resembling England, and where those men lived, bred children, spent their lives, and died. Only they were under the jurisdiction of the King of England, and yielded obedience to his orders.