Tarikh-i Muzaffari 5.8

5.8

Colonel Clive Sabit-jang, being informed of what was passing, and of the evils meditated, cast aside the treaty of peace and prepared for war. He marched from Calcutta, to the great dismay of Siraju-d daula, who sought to conciliate and encourage his own adherents. He sent Raja Dulabh Ram forward with a force to choose a suitable place for throwing up intrenchments and collecting guns. Rai Dulabh started on his commission. Openly he applied himself to carry out the orders of his master; but in his secret heart he lost no opportunity of scheming for his overthrow. He was careful to observe the conditions of the treaty with the English on his own part and on the part of Nawab Mir Muhammad Ja'far, and he won over the officers of the army of Siraju-d daula by offers of money. Mir Muhammad Ja'far occupied himself continually in the same way. So they gathered large numbers around them, and few were left to Siraju-d daula.