Storia do Mogor 292.5.3

292.5.3

Pushed to an extremity, the English sent to ask under what orders he had resorted to these severities, by what authority he had occupied those villages, confiscated the cloth belonging to the Company, and was proceeding daily to further seizures. They asked also why he had made prisoners of the native merchants of the Company residing up-country, why he had seized the money and goods appertaining to the said Company. To the whole of this the general replied that he had a letter from the king ordering him to stop the trade of all European nations, more especially that of the English. He was directed to restrict their movements and treat them somewhat rigorously. Now these people call 'a little rigour' what would be looked on in Europe as the severest repression. He sent the governor a copy of the letter [February 6 or 17].