Indeed, all correspondence between the
Begum and me has long been stopped; and I request you will be pleased to
inform her that I by no means wish to resume it, or to maintain any
friendly intercourse with her, until she has made good my claim upon her
for the balance due."
XLI. That, in consequence of these threats, and to prevent a separation
of the ministers from their mistresses, several plans for the payment of
the balance were offered, both by the mother of the Nabob and the
prisoners, to which no other objection appears to have been made than
the length of time required by the parties to discharge the
comparatively small remainder of the extorted bond: the officer on
command declaring, that, conformable to his instructions, he could not
receive the same.[66]
XLII. That the prisoners were actually removed from the city of their
residence to the city of Lucknow, where they arrived on the 24th of
June, 1782, and were on the next day threatened with severities, "to
make them discover where the balance might be procurable.
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