He will well remember the manner in which,
at a visit to him in his own tent, I declared my acquiescence freely,
and without hesitation, to each proposition, which afterwards formed the
substance of a written agreement, as he severally made them; and he can
want no other evidence of my motives for _so cheerful a consent_, nor
for the requests which I added as the means of fulfilling his purposes
in them. Had he not made these measures his own option, I should not
have proposed them; _but having once adopted them, and made them the
conditions of a formal and sacred agreement, I had no longer an option
to dispense with them, but was bound to the complete performance and
execution of them, as points of public duty and of national faith, for
which I was responsible to my king, and the Company my immediate
superiors: and this was the reason for my insisting on their performance
and execution, when I was told that the Nabob himself had relaxed from
his original purpose, and expressed a reluctance to proceed in it_.
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