Storia do Mogor 281.25.3

281.25.3

I sent all this correspondence to the camp by one of my servants. After these dispatches had started, Pere Martin proposed to leave for his college at Pondicherry, which is part of the same mission, and by his hands I sent [78] a letter in reply to that of Governor Martin, detailing what I had done for the relief of the Christians at his solicitation and as a response to the friendship with which he honoured me. As soon as my man arrived at the army, he presented my letters to the general commanding, Da,ud Khan, along with some presents that I sent him on my own behalf. He also delivered the other letters to the first minister and the other officers to whom I had the honour of writing. These men, having read them and learnt that the captive fathers were my near relations, were extremely incensed against the King of Tanjor. The commanding general, in particular, and the first minister displayed much resentment on the subject; and on the spot they sent for the envoy of that prince, who is always present in the army of the general to secure the interests of the king, his master. They blamed the king loudly for his hardihood in imprisoning the poor European Brahmans from Rome (that is the name they give the priests). To this they added some harsh and severe language, and told him they were amazed still more at the acts of the king, his master, when he knew that these fathers were near relations of the doctor Nicolas Manuchy, physician to the Mogul Emperor, his suzerain.