The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

which, among other particulars, are contained the following.

"Our situation is not fit to be represented. For two years we have not received a hubba on
account of our tuncaw [assignment on the revenue], though the ministers have annually
charged a lac of rupees, and never paid us anything. After all, we are the sons of Sujah ul
Dowlah! It is surprising, having such a friend as you, our situation is arrived at that pass
that we should be in distress for dry bread and clothes. Whereas you have done many
generous acts, be pleased so to show us your favor, that by some means we may receive our
allowances from the Company's treasury, and not be obliged to depend upon and solicit
others for it."

XLVIII. That one of the princes aforesaid, called the Mirza Jungly, about the beginning of
the year 1783, was obliged to fly from the dominions of the Nabob of Oude, and to leave
his country and connections; and as the Resident, Bristow, writing from Lucknow, hath
observed, "he went to try his fortune at other courts, in preference to starving at home,
which might have been his fate, by all accounts, at this place." And the said prince sought
for succor at the court of one of the neighboring Mahomedan princes; but conceiving some
disgust at the treatment he met with there, he departed from thence, and on the 8th of
February, 1783, arrived at the Mahratta camp, while David Anderson, Esquire, was there in
the character of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Company, with a view, if his reception there
should not prove answerable to his wishes, to pass on to the southward. And the said
Anderson, probably considering this event as of very great importance to the honor of the
British government, as well as to its interest, on the one hand, by exhibiting the son and
brother of a sovereign prince, from whom the Company had received many millions of
money, a fugitive from his country, and a wanderer for bread through the courts of India,

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