The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

and many others of their principal chiefs were slain; but, escaping from the slaughter,
Fyzoola Khân "made his retreat good towards the mountains, with all his treasure." He
there collected the scattered remains of his countrymen; and as he was the eldest surviving
son of Ali Mohammed Khân, as, too, the most powerful obstacle to his pretensions was
now removed by the death of Hafiz, he seems at length to have been generally
acknowledged by his natural subjects the undoubted heir of his father's authority.

IV. That, "regarding the sacred sincerity and friendship of the English, whose goodness and
celebrity is everywhere known, who dispossess no one," the Nabob Fyzoola Khân made
early overtures for peace to Colonel Alexander Champion, commander-in-chief of the
Company's forces in Bengal: that he did propose to the said Colonel Alexander Champion,
in three letters, received on the 14th, 24th, and 27th of May, to put himself under the
protection either of the Company, or of the Vizier, through the mediation and with the
guaranty of the Company; and that he did offer, "whatever was conferred upon him, to pay
as much without damage or deficiency as any other person would agree to do": stating, at
the same time, his condition and pretensions hereinbefore recited as facts "evident as the
sun"; and appealing, in a forcible and awful manner, to the generosity and magnanimity of
this nation, "by whose means he hoped in God that he should receive justice"; and as "the
person who designed the war was no more," as "in that he was himself guiltless," and as "he
had never acted in such a manner as for the Vizier to have taken hatred to his heart against
him, that he might be reinstated in his ancient possessions, the country of Ins father."

V. That on the last of the three dates above mentioned, that is to say, on the 27th of May,
the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did also send to the commander-in-chief a vakeel, or ambassador,
who was authorized on the part of him, the Nabob Fyzoola Khân, his master, to make a

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