Johnson, who I desired might bear witness of the
conversation, that I construed his rejection of the measure proposed as
a breach of his solemn promise to you, and an unwillingness to yield
that assistance which was evidently in his power towards liquidating his
heavy accumulating debt to the Company_, and that I must in consequence
determine, in my own justification, _to issue immediately the
purwannahs_, which had only been withheld in the sanguine hope that he
would be prevailed upon _to make that his own act_ which nothing but the
most urgent necessity could force _me to make mine_. He left me without
any reply, but afterwards sent for his minister and authorized him to
give me hopes that my requisition would be complied with; on which I
expressed my satisfaction, but declared that I could admit of no further
delays, and, unless I received his Excellency's formal acquiescence
before the evening, I should then most assuredly issue _my_ purwannahs;
which _I have accordingly done_, not having had any assurances from his
Excellency that could justify a further suspension.
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