Storia do Mogor 211.1.2

211.1.2

Daniel Chardin, brother of the traveller, wrote from Bhagnagar (Haidarabad) on February 11-21, 1687-8, saying that the Mogul had gone on to Bijapur, and that the Dutch had interviewed Ruhullah Khan, the new governor. D. Chardin on February 22 wrote again that the Dutch had not obtained their farman. On August 28, 1688, the Fort St. George authorities again speak of Hendrik van Reede, Dutch Commissary-General, proposing to send Johannes Bacherus to the Mogul from Pulicat with a very large present. It was said the Dutch were trying to get the English excluded from the Mogul's dominions by offering a payment of 8 lakhs of rupees a year. In a letter to the Court of Directors (Original Correspondence 5658) of January, 1689, it is stated that the Dutch envoy had started. On July 12 and 20, 1689, they speak of the ' late ' embassy, and assert that it met with no success, their ' present ' being plundered by the Mahrattahs. Pulicat Fort, held by the Dutch, was to be reduced to a mere factory (Fort St. George to Court, February 1, 1690, Original Correspondence No. 5698).