"As it is
not possible to listen to _any_ terms from the Begums before the final
discharge of their conditional agreement for fifty-five lacs, your
coming here upon such an agency can only be _loss of time_ in completing
the recovery of the balance of 6,55,000, for which your regiment was
sent to Fyzabad. I must therefore desire you will leave _no efforts,
gentle or harsh_, unattempted to complete this, before you move from
Fyzabad; and I am very anxious that this should be as soon as possible,
_as I want to employ your regiment upon other emergent service, now
suffering by every delay_."
XLVIII. That the goods aforesaid were sent to Lucknow, and disposed of
in a manner unknown; and the harsh and oppressive measures aforesaid
being still continued, the Begum did, about the middle of October,
1782, cause to be represented to the said Middleton as follows. "That
her situation was truly pitiable,--her estate sequestered, her treasury
ransacked, her cojahs prisoners, and her servants deserting daily from
want of subsistence.
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