1876
" The walls were variegated with divers sorts of gems like the divisions of a " chess board the houses formed one continued row'of equal height resoun" ing with the music of the tabor the twang of the bow and the sacred " sound of the Veda. [...] He had paid tribute to the latter; and now by this cession the tribute was carried directly into the coffers of the Company.* Thus while the Company were requiring It is mentioned in the history of Sairool Mootakhurreen that agreeably to the wish of the Directors Warren Hastings repeatedly applied to the Nadtaub Shoojah-ood-Dowlah to cede to the Company the whole stale of Benares but that t [...] The last remnant of lucre was sucked out of thceased treaty " before like an empty orange it was cast aside; for by an addendum to the present treaty bearing date the same clay it was engaged that " the balance due to the English Company " on account of the countries of Corah and Allahabad " Rohilcund and the pay of the troops according to the " engagement of the late Nabob Soojah-ul-Do [...] The Directors had affected to doubt the prpriety of quartering their troops upon the Wuzier by the treaty of 1773 ; but the local Government did their utmost to render permanent a burden which purported on the face of the treaty to be optional and temporary ; and at length the Directors had given a coy sanction to the prceeding provided it was done with the free consent of " the Soobah [...] number influence and enormous amount of the "salaries pensions and emoluments of the Company's " service civil and military in the.Trzzier's service have "become an intolerable burden upon the revenue and "authority of His Excellency and exposed us to the envy " and resentment of the whole country by excluding the " native servants and adherents of the Vizier from the " rewards of their s