Storia do Mogor 281.26.5

281.26.5

It is about two or three days ago that I arrived from the Mission, where I went to obtain more exact information of all that had passed in regard to the Nawab's letter which you so kindly procured on behalf of that afflicted Christian community. I write you this in order to give an account, as is my duty, of all the benefit that you have secured for us. First of all, it is certain that the letters of the nawab and the diwan were written with all the force that could be desired, and the style in which they are worded proves plainly enough the great credit you possess at that court. Secondly, although Charnaomet (Shah Muhammad) did not fulfil the promise he had given you of sending us a chobdar to take the said letters to Tanjor, no harm has ensued. For Francois Sobral, the young man who brought them, has done all that a chobdar could have done ; indeed, I believe he could hardly have done as much. It is notorious, and all the world is witness, that the above-named Sobral spoke to the minister of the Tanjor king with extraordinary firmness and courage, and carried out the business with great prudence and dexterity. Thirdly, the news written from the Mission here by the reverend fathers, that the said Sobral was a prisoner in the fortress of Tanjor was sent a little too precipitately. For the said fathers gave too much credit to a few silly Christians who had started such an irrelevant report.