with the detail of which it is not necessary to trouble you. Mr. Hastings was at this time at
the durbar; and having everything prepared, and the ground smoothed, they first endeavored
to persuade the Nabob to deliver over the power negotiated for into the hands of their friend
Cossim Ali Khân. But when the old man, frightened out of his wits, asked, "What is it he
has bid for me?" and added, "I will give half as much again to save myself; pray let me
know what my price is,"—he entreated in vain. They were true, firm, and faithful to their
word and their engagement. When he saw they were resolved that he should be delivered
into the hands of Cossim Ali Khân, he at once surrenders the whole to him. They instantly
grasp it. He throws himself into a boat, and will not remain at home an hour, but hurries
down to Calcutta to leave his blood at our door, if we should have a mind to take it. But the
life of the Nabob was too great a stake (partly as a security for the good behavior of Cossim
Ali Khân, and still more for the future use that might be made of him) to be thrown away,
or left in the hands of a man who would certainly murder him, and who was very angry at
being refused the murder of his father-in-law. The price of this second revolution was,
according to their shares in it, (I believe I have it here,) somewhere about 200,000l. This
little effusion to private interest settled the matter, and here ended the second revolution in
the country: effected, indeed, without bloodshed, but with infinite treachery, with infinite
mischief, consequent to the dismemberment of the country, and which had nearly become
fatal to our concerns there, like everything else in which Mr. Hastings had any share.
This prince, Cossim Ali Khân, the friend of Mr. Hastings, knew that those who could give
could take away dominion. He had scarcely got upon the throne, procured for him by our
public spirit and his own iniquities, than he began directly and instantly to fortify himself,
and to bend all his politics against those who were or could be the donors of such fatal gifts.
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